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Your third best glaucoma‐friend, structure evaluation
Author(s) -
SUNARIC MEGEVAND G
Publication year - 2011
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.1755-3768.2011.2453.x
Subject(s) - glaucoma , optic nerve , fundus (uterus) , medicine , optometry , retinal , ophthalmology , nerve fibre layer
Glaucoma is characterized by structural changes of the optic nerve and the retinal nerve fibre layer (RNFL) and corresponding functional alterations. Although the glaucoma specialist still depends upon direct fundus examination to assess structural damage, the last ten years has seen the emergence of a variety of new technologies for objective and non‐invasive measurement of structural changes. During the course will be discussed the most important parameters for direct fundoscopic analysis of the optic nerve head and RNFL as well as the principals of the 3 most used imaging devices HRT, GDX, OCT.