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BRITISH JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
Volume 103, Issue 9, Pages 1217-1222Publisher
BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2018-312753
Keywords
glaucoma; retina; imaging
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- Canadian Institutes for Health Research [MOP 11357]
- Heidelberg Engineering
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Background/Aims To determine the effect of glaucoma on outer retinal layer thickness in eyes with horizontal hemifield visual field (VF) defects. Methods We conducted a cross-sectional study in glaucomatous eyes with repeatable (in three or examinations) horizontal hemifield VF (programme 24-2) defect defined as: all five nasal VF locations immediately either above or below the horizontal midline abnormal in the pattern deviation plot with p<0.5%; no mirror-image adjacent 5 VF locations abnormal in the pattern deviation plot and no non-edge VF locations in the non-affected hemifield abnormal in the pattern deviation plot with p<1%. We used optical coherence tomography to measure thickness of each retinal layer in the temporal macula (12 degrees horizontally and 24 degrees vertically) and computed the absolute (mu m) and relative (%) intraindividual asymmetry between the perimetrically normal and abnormal hemimacula. Results We included 10 eyes of 8 patients with median age of 67 years and median VF mean deviation of -8.85 dB. The nerve fibre, ganglion cell and inner plexiform layers were significantly thinner in the perimetrically abnormal hemimacula (median asymmetry of -6.4, -11.5 and -3.8 mu m, (corresponding to -27.7, -40.5 and -15.7 %), respectively, all p <= 0.01). The inner nuclear layer was slightly thicker in the perimetrically abnormal hemimacula (median asymmetry of 1.3 mu m (5.0 %), p=0.01). The outer plexiform, outer nuclear and photoreceptor layers asymmetry values were negligible. Conclusion Our study showed no evidence that glaucoma has an effect on the outer retinal layer thickness. In contrast, a large impact was observed in inner layer thickness.
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