A Prospective Longitudinal Study to Investigate Corneal Hysteresis as a Risk Factor for Predicting Development of Glaucoma

Autor: Fábio B. Daga, Feilin Zhu, Alberto Diniz-Filho, Carolina N. Susanna, Bianca N. Susanna, Felipe A. Medeiros, Nara G. Ogata
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: American journal of ophthalmology. 187
ISSN: 1879-1891
Popis: PURPOSE: To investigate the role of corneal hysteresis (CH) as a risk factor for development of glaucoma. DESIGN: Prospective observational cohort study. METHODS: Two-hundred and eighty-seven eyes of 199 patients suspected of having glaucoma followed for an average of 3.9 ± 1.8 years. All eyes had normal visual fields at baseline. Development of glaucoma was defined as occurrence of 3 consecutive abnormal standard automated perimetry tests during follow-up, defined as pattern standard deviation (PSD)
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