The risk of newly developed visual impairment in treated normal‐tension glaucoma: 10‐year follow‐up

Purpose To investigate the risk and risk factors for newly developed visual impairment in treated patients with normal‐tension glaucoma (NTG) followed up on for 10 years. Methods Patients with NTG, who did not have visual impairment at the initial diagnosis and had undergone intraocular pressure (IO...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Acta ophthalmologica (Oxford, England) England), 2014-12, Vol.92 (8), p.e644-e649
Hauptverfasser:	Choi, Yun Jeong, Kim, Martha, Park, Ki Ho, Kim, Dong Myung, Kim, Seok Hwan
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult Aged Antihypertensive Agents - therapeutic use Blindness Blindness - diagnosis Blindness - epidemiology Drug therapy Female Follow-Up Studies Glaucoma Humans intraocular pressure Intraocular Pressure - physiology Kaplan-Meier Estimate Low Tension Glaucoma - drug therapy Low Tension Glaucoma - epidemiology low vision Male Middle Aged normal‐tension glaucoma Ophthalmology People with disabilities Retrospective Studies Risk Assessment Risk Factors risk of visual impairment Survival analysis Tonometry, Ocular Vision, Low - diagnosis Vision, Low - epidemiology Visual Acuity - physiology Visual impairment Visually Impaired Persons - statistics & numerical data
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Zusammenfassung:	Purpose To investigate the risk and risk factors for newly developed visual impairment in treated patients with normal‐tension glaucoma (NTG) followed up on for 10 years. Methods Patients with NTG, who did not have visual impairment at the initial diagnosis and had undergone intraocular pressure (IOP)‐lowering treatment for more than 7 years, were included on the basis of a retrospective chart review. Visual impairment was defined as either low vision (0.05 [20/400] ≤ visual acuity (VA)
ISSN:	1755-375X 1755-3768
DOI:	10.1111/aos.12411