Open AccessCentral Visual Field Sensitivity With and Without Background Light Given to the Nontested Fellow Eye in Glaucoma Patients
Author(s) -
Izumi Mine,
T. Shoji,
Tomoyuki Kumagai,
Yuji Yoshikawa,
Akane Kosaka,
Kei Shinoda
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of glaucoma
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.11
H-Index - 88
eISSN - 1536-481X
pISSN - 1057-0829
DOI - 10.1097/ijg.0000000000001764
Subject(s) - medicine , visual field , glaucoma , ophthalmology , monocular , visual acuity , optometry , light sensitivity , open angle glaucoma , perimeter , optics , mathematics , physics , geometry
This study showed the difference of monocular visual sensitivity between with and without background light given to the nontested fellow eyes in glaucoma patients. Monocular sensitivity measurements of the worse eyes with fellow eye's background light conditions should carefully be considered when assessing the impact of functional impairment in glaucoma patients.