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The comparative analysis of optic disc damage in exfoliative glaucoma
Author(s) -
Tezel Gülgün,
Tezel Tongalp H.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
acta ophthalmologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.534
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1755-3768
pISSN - 1755-375X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-3768.1993.tb08594.x
Subject(s) - optic disc , glaucoma , ophthalmology , medicine , intraocular pressure , optic cup (embryology) , open angle glaucoma , optic disk , chemistry , biochemistry , gene , eye development , phenotype
. To compare the initial and follow‐up discernible glaucomatous neuroretinal rim (NRR) and parapapillary chorioretinal changes in patients with primary open‐angle glaucoma (POAG) and exfoliative glaucoma (EG), we analyzed 40 optic discs from 40 patients with POAG, 40 optic discs from 40 patients with EG and 20 optic discs from 20 normal subjects. The mean intraocular pressure was higher in the EG group when compared with POAG (p < 0.001). Although the mean disc areas in both groups were not significantly different, the mean intial NRR area to disc area ratio was significantly smaller in patients with EG (p < 0.001). At the initial diagnosis the most prominent NRR defects of the patients with POAG were at the inferotemporal and superotemporal sectors, followed by the temporal and nasal sectors. However, the NRR in the EG group was noticed to decrease diffusely without such a sectorial preference. There was no significant difference between the mean loss of the NRR to disc area ratio in both groups at the end of the follow‐up period of 1 year (p < 0.05). The values of parapapillary chorioretinal atrophy areas in POAG and EG patients were not significantly different from each other, neither at the initial examination nor during the follow‐up period (p < 0.05). Those results suggest that high intraocular pressure in eyes with EG may constitute a major risk for rapid and progressive glaucomatous optic disc damage.