Visual Performance as a Function of Luminance in Glaucoma

Autor: Nomdo M. Jansonius, Marije H. de Boer, Ronald A. J. M. Bierings
Přispěvatelé: Perceptual and Cognitive Neuroscience (PCN)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
Předmět:
Male
Visual acuity
Light
genetic structures
flicker sensitivity
Visual Acuity
Glaucoma
Luminance
Flicker Fusion
0302 clinical medicine
perimetry
Foveal
psychophysics
QUALITY-OF-LIFE
Psychophysics
ADAPTATION ABNORMALITIES
SPATIAL SUMMATION
MODULATION SENSITIVITY
Mathematics
Aged
80 and over

05 social sciences
Middle Aged
dark adaptation
Visual field
LIGHT ADAPTATION
PARVOCELLULAR PATHWAYS
Female
medicine.symptom
OPEN-ANGLE GLAUCOMA
Glaucoma
Open-Angle

Adult
Open angle glaucoma
Flicker fusion threshold
Retina
050105 experimental psychology
COLLABORATIVE INITIAL GLAUCOMA
03 medical and health sciences
CONTRAST SENSITIVITY
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Aged
FLICKER PERIMETRY
medicine.disease
eye diseases
glaucoma
Case-Control Studies
Law
030221 ophthalmology & optometry
Visual Field Tests
sense organs
Visual Fields
Zdroj: Investigative ophthalmology & visual science, 59(8), 3416-3423. ASSOC RESEARCH VISION OPHTHALMOLOGY INC
ISSN: 0146-0404
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.17-22497
Popis: PURPOSE. To determine whether the De Vries-Rose, Weber's, and Ferry-Porter's law, which describe visual performance as a function of luminance, also hold in patients with glaucoma.METHODS. A case-control study with 19 glaucoma patients and 45 controls, all with normal visual acuity. We measured foveal and peripheral contrast sensitivity (CS) using static perimetry and foveal and peripheral critical fusion frequency (CFF; stimulus diameter 1 degrees) as a function of luminance (0.02 to 200 cd/m(2)). ANOVA was used to analyze the effect of glaucoma and luminance on CS and CFF; analyses were adjusted for age and sex.RESULTS. Foveally, logCS was proportional to log luminance at lower luminances (de Vries-Rose) and saturated at higher luminances (Weber); glaucoma patients had a 0.4 log unit lower logCS than controls (P CONCLUSIONS. Even in apparently intact areas of the visual field, visual performance is worse in glaucoma patients than in healthy subjects for a wide range of luminances, without a clear luminance dependency that is consistent across the various experiments. This indicates impaired signal processing downstream in the retina and beyond, rather than an impaired light adaptation in the strictest sense.
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