Effect of Compliance to Medical Treatment on Visual Field of Egyptian Patients with Primary Open Angle Glaucoma

Abstract

Glaucoma is an important cause of preventable blindness worldwide. Glaucoma management is dependent on identifying disease related functional or structural defects and monitoring their progression over time. In order to increase efficiency and to reduce testing time, for the benefit of the examiner and patients alike, the OCTOPUS parameters were used in compartive manner for the two study groups . In this study, we detected the effect of compliance to medical treatment on visual field of Egyptian patients with POAG . This study composed of the right eyes of 40 patients; 16 were males (40%) and 24 were females (60 %). Perimetry was done for all patients' right eyes using static strategy of OCTOPUS 900 and all data were collected from the visual fields done at time of presentation and after 3 months later and statistical comparison was done between the3 parameters (MD, MS,LV ) of Octopus 900.