Volume : III, Issue : XII, December - 2014

The Visual Field in Normal Tension and Hyper Tension Glaukoma

Jan Lestak, Elena Nutterova, Libuse Bartosova, Pavel Rozsival

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The aim of the study was to determine whether normal tension glaucoma (NTG) is different from hypertension glaucoma (HTG) in global indices -with regard to the pattern defect (PD) and overall defect (OD) of the visual field. 25 NTG patients withan average age of 62.8 years and 25 HTG patients with anaverage age of 62.5 years were included in the study. All patientsunderwent a visual fieldexamination using the Medmont M700 fast threshold glaucoma program. Both groups had approximately the same impairment of the visual field. No patient had other ophthalmological or neurological diseases. Subsequently, we compared PD and OD in both groups. Statistical analysis was performed using the paired t-test, which showed that PD is statistically higher than OD (p = 0.0001) in patients with NTG. On the contrary, patients with HTG showed statistically higher OD values when compared to PD (p = 0.000). Conclusion: We found that both groups of diseases show significantly different visual field findings.

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Jan Lestak,Elena Nutterova,Libuse Bartosova,Pavel Rozsival The Visual Field in Normaltension and Hypertension Glaucoma International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol : 3, Issue : 12 December 2014

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