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Video color perimetry: impairment in glaucoma suspects

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Purpose: To detect mild visual field impairment in asymptomatic glaucoma suspect patients. Methods: Color perception within the visual field was tested with customized color video perimetry. The key features of the system were stimuli color desaturation, low-level luminance and equiluminant gray background. Twenty patients with asymptomatic glaucoma were tested and compared with a group of age-matched control subjects. Results: Automated perimetry test findings differed significantly in the two groups, particularly for short-wavelength sensitivity (blue). The severity of color impairment correlated directly with intraocular pressure. Conclusion: Desaturated low-luminance video perimetry will reliably detect and quantify asymptomatic visual field defects. A previous work on multiple sclerosis has detected a mild long-wavelength (red) impairment in asymptomatic patients after an episode of optic neuritis, even in clinically unaffected fellow eyes. Our findings in glaucoma suspect patients indicate that a mild blue impairment could be the initial sign of this disease.

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  1. Dipartimento di Scienze Neurologiche, University of Rome 'La Sapienza', Rome, Italy

    Neri Accornero, Marco Capozza, Alessia De Feo, Steno Rinalduzzi & Milena De Marinis

  2. I Clinica Oculistica, University of Rome 'La Sapienza', Rome, Italy

    Jose Pecori- Giraldi, Antonella Mollicone & Veronica Volante

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Accornero, N., Capozza, M., De Feo, A. et al. Video color perimetry: impairment in glaucoma suspects. Doc Ophthalmol 103, 81–90 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1012291323927

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