Changes in Ganglion Cell Complex and Nerve Fiber Layer in correlation to perimetry changes in early open angle glaucoma
Nour Adel Mabrouk;
Abstract
Abstract
Background: Glaucoma is an optic neuropathy that is characterized by the loss of retinal ganglion cells and the retinal nerve fiber layer. There is a diversity of factors that may lead to glaucoma but the main issues in common are the effect on the retinal ganglion cells and potentially devastating visual loss.
Aim of work: The aim of the present study is to assess the macular ganglion cell layer (GCL) and peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (pRNFL) using OCT. This is to demonstrate the structural damage that occurs in early glaucoma patients. Also to correlate those changes with the functional changes seen in Standard Automated Perimetry (SAP).
Patients and Methods: This is a reterograde cross-sectional observational study conducted in Ain Shams University hospitals. This present study aimed at analyzing the data of 40 patients with early open angle glaucoma to the outpatient clinic of both Ain Shams University Hospitals and Memorial Institute of Ophthalmology over a year period from November 2016 to December 2017.
Background: Glaucoma is an optic neuropathy that is characterized by the loss of retinal ganglion cells and the retinal nerve fiber layer. There is a diversity of factors that may lead to glaucoma but the main issues in common are the effect on the retinal ganglion cells and potentially devastating visual loss.
Aim of work: The aim of the present study is to assess the macular ganglion cell layer (GCL) and peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (pRNFL) using OCT. This is to demonstrate the structural damage that occurs in early glaucoma patients. Also to correlate those changes with the functional changes seen in Standard Automated Perimetry (SAP).
Patients and Methods: This is a reterograde cross-sectional observational study conducted in Ain Shams University hospitals. This present study aimed at analyzing the data of 40 patients with early open angle glaucoma to the outpatient clinic of both Ain Shams University Hospitals and Memorial Institute of Ophthalmology over a year period from November 2016 to December 2017.
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| Title | Changes in Ganglion Cell Complex and Nerve Fiber Layer in correlation to perimetry changes in early open angle glaucoma | Other Titles | تغيرات الخلايا العقدية و الألياف العصبية و ارتباطها بتغيرات مجال الابصار في الجلوكوما المبكره | Authors | Nour Adel Mabrouk | Issue Date | 2018 |
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