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Contrast sensitivity testing has been recommended as a more sensitive indicator of early visual loss than visual field testing. Using gravity inversion to induce an intraocular pressure rise, we performed contrast sensitivity testing on each eye of 10 normal subjects in the upright and inverted positions. Contrast sensitivity results were not altered in the head-down position, even though in 5 of the 10 subjects (7 of 20 eyes), visual field alterations on static perimetry were elicited during inversion. In both of these evaluations, the subject's results in the upright position served as the control, freeing us from reliance upon age-matched populations. We conclude that precise measurement of static thresholds with automated perimetry is more sensitive than routine contrast sensitivity testing in detecting visual dysfunction related to transient acute elevations of intraocular pressure.
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Friberg, T.R., Sanborn, G.E. & Budd, R. Contrast sensitivity versus static visual field testing during experimental elevation of intraocular pressure. Graefe's Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 227, 345–347 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02169410
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02169410