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Assessing Early Stage Open-Angle Glaucoma in Patients by Isolated-Check Visual Evoked Potential
Published on: May 25, 2020
Psychophysical examination of paracentral defects in glaucoma
1State University of New York, Health Science Center at Brooklyn, New York 11203, USA.
Current Opinion in Ophthalmology
|June 10, 2000
Abstract:
More than 50% of ganglion cells may be damaged before visual field loss is measurable by conventional methods in primary open angle glaucoma. There is general agreement on the need to improve early diagnosis of visual field loss in primary open angle glaucoma. In this article, new techniques that enlist measurement of paracentral regions are discussed, and the ability of each method to detect visual field loss prior to perimetric loss is described.
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