Keun-Heung Park1, Ji-Woong Lee1,2, Jin-Mi Kim3, Kouros Nouri-Mahdavi4, Joseph Caprioli4. 1. Department of Ophthalmology, Pusan National University College of Medicine, Busan 49241, Korea. 2. Biomedical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan 49241, Korea. 3. Department of Biostatistics, Clinical Trial Center, Biomedical Research Institute, Pusan National University Hospital, Busan 49241, Korea. 4. Stein Eye Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles 90095, California, USA.
Abstract
AIM: To determine the Bruch's membrane opening-minimum rim width (BMO-MRW) tipping point where corresponding visual field (VF) damages become detectable. METHODS: A total of 85 normal subjects and 83 glaucoma patients (one eye per participant) were recruited for the study. All of the patients had VF examinations and spectral-domain optical coherence tomography to measure the BMO-MRW. Total deviation values for 52 VF points were allocated to the corresponding sector according to the Garway-Heath distribution map. To evaluate the relationship between VF loss and BMO-MRW measurements, a "broken-stick" statistical model was used. The tipping point where the VF values started to sharply decrease as a function of BMO-MRW measurements was estimated and the slopes above and below this tipping point were compared. RESULTS: A 25.9% global BMO-MRW loss from normative value was required for the VF loss to be detectable. Sectorally, substantial BMO-MRW thinning in inferotemporal sector (33.1%) and relatively less BMO-MRW thinning in the superotemporal sector (8.9%) were necessary for the detection of the VF loss. Beyond the tipping point, the slopes were close to zero throughout all of the sectors and the VF loss was unrelated to the BMO-MRW loss. The VF loss was related to the BMO-MRW loss below the tipping point. The difference between the two slopes was statistically significant (P≤0.002). CONCLUSION: Substantial BMO-MRW loss appears to be necessary for VF loss to be detectable in patients with open angle glaucoma with standard achromatic perimetry.
AIM: To determine the Bruch's membrane opening-minimum rim width (BMO-MRW) tipping point where corresponding visual field (VF) damages become detectable. METHODS: A total of 85 normal subjects and 83 glaucomapatients (one eye per participant) were recruited for the study. All of the patients had VF examinations and spectral-domain optical coherence tomography to measure the BMO-MRW. Total deviation values for 52 VF points were allocated to the corresponding sector according to the Garway-Heath distribution map. To evaluate the relationship between VF loss and BMO-MRW measurements, a "broken-stick" statistical model was used. The tipping point where the VF values started to sharply decrease as a function of BMO-MRW measurements was estimated and the slopes above and below this tipping point were compared. RESULTS: A 25.9% global BMO-MRW loss from normative value was required for the VF loss to be detectable. Sectorally, substantial BMO-MRW thinning in inferotemporal sector (33.1%) and relatively less BMO-MRW thinning in the superotemporal sector (8.9%) were necessary for the detection of the VF loss. Beyond the tipping point, the slopes were close to zero throughout all of the sectors and the VF loss was unrelated to the BMO-MRW loss. The VF loss was related to the BMO-MRW loss below the tipping point. The difference between the two slopes was statistically significant (P≤0.002). CONCLUSION: Substantial BMO-MRW loss appears to be necessary for VF loss to be detectable in patients with open angle glaucoma with standard achromatic perimetry.
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Bruch's membrane opening-minimum rim width; broken stick model; optical coherence tomography; structure function relationship; visual field loss
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