Diagnostic Accuracy of Frequency-Doubling Technology and the Moorfields Motion Displacement Test for Glaucoma.

Purpose: Portable perimetric testing could be useful for community-based glaucoma screening programs. Frequency-doubling technology (FDT) and the Moorfields motion displacement test (MDT) are portable perimeters that have shown promise as potential screening tools for glaucoma. This study's goal was to determine the diagnostic accuracy of FDT and MDT for visual field defects and glaucoma.

Diagnostic accuracy of an iPad application for detection of visual field defects.

Background/objectives: Tablet-based perimetry could be used to test for glaucomatous visual field defects in settings without easy access to perimeters, although few studies have assessed diagnostic accuracy of tablet-based tests. The goal of this study was to determine the diagnostic accuracy of iPad perimetry using the visualFields Easy application.

Subjects/methods: This was a prospective, cross-sectional study of patients undergoing their first Humphrey Field Analyser (HFA) visual field test at a glaucoma clinic in India.

Comparison of Structural, Functional, Tonometric, and Visual Acuity Testing for Glaucoma: A Prospective Diagnostic Accuracy Study.

Purpose: To determine the diagnostic accuracy of potential screening tests for moderate to advanced glaucoma.

Design: Prospective diagnostic test accuracy study.

Participants: The study enrolled a consecutive series of patients aged ≥50 years who presented to a glaucoma clinic in South India without ever having received automated visual field testing.

Accuracy of autorefraction in an adult Indian population.

Purpose: Autorefractors allow non-specialists to quickly assess refractive error, and thus could be a useful component of large-scale vision screening programs. In order to better characterize the role of autorefraction for public health outreach programs in resource-limited settings, the diagnostic accuracy of two autorefractors was assessed relative to subjective refraction in an adult Indian population.

Methods: An optometrist refracted a series of patients aged ≥50 years at an eye clinic in Bangalore, India using the Nidek ARK-900 autorefractor first, followed by the 3nethra Royal autorefractor, and then subjective refraction.

Comparison of low-dose intraoperative mitomycin-C vs 5-fluorouracil in primary glaucoma surgery: a pilot study.

Background And Objective: This study was undertaken to compare the efficacy and safety of low-dose intraoperative application of mitomycin-C (MMC) with that of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) in primary trabeculectomy.

Patients And Methods: A non-randomized prospective study was performed between August 1994 and November 1995. Thirty-two eyes of 16 consecutive patients who underwent trabeculectomy for uncontrolled glaucoma of various causes form the study group.