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Assessing Early Stage Open-Angle Glaucoma in Patients by Isolated-Check Visual Evoked Potential
Published on: May 25, 2020
Should we screen for asymptomatic left ventricular dysfunction in glaucoma patients?
L Bojic1, R Ermacora, D Karelovic
1Eye Clinic, Clinical Hospital Split, Split University, Split, Croatia. deni@kbsplit.hr
Background:
The aim of the study was to assess the frequency of asymptomatic left ventricular dysfunction in primary open-angle glaucoma patients.
Patients And Methods:
Two-dimensional and pulsed Doppler echocardiography of transmitral flow was performed on 31 glaucoma patients and 27 controls.
Results:
No significant difference was found in early (E) and late (A) transmitral filling velocity, velocity time integral E wave (VTIE) and A wave (VTIA), left ventricular end-diastolic pressure, pulmonary capillary wedge pressure, left ventricular ejection fraction (EF) and fractional shortening (FS). A significant difference was found in ratio E/A (P=0.04) and ratio VTIA/VTIE (P=0.05), although all obtained values were within the 95% confidence limit for the corresponding age.
Conclusion:
Our study tends to indicate the possibility of dysfunction of myocardial relaxation in glaucoma patients, which might be partially attributed to systemic vascular dysregulation.
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