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We matched 17 eyes of patients with open-angle glaucoma with 17 eyes of patients with glaucoma-like discs by disc area size. We found no significant difference between the two groups for the total disc with respect to cup volume, area, depth, neuro-retinal rim area, slope and area of pallor. However, a significant difference was obtained between the two groups for retinal nerve fiber layer thickness measured at the disc rim for the total disc. The eyes with glaucoma-like discs had a significantly greater retinal nerve fiber layer thickness than the eyes with open-angle glaucoma. These results suggest that patients with glaucoma-like discs may be some variant of open-angle glaucoma.
Supported in part by Research Grants from Alcon Research Institute Fort Worth, TX and Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc.
The studies in this paper were done while Guillaume Peigne was a Glaucoma fellow at the Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
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Peigne, G., Schwartz, B., Takamoto, T. (1991). Similarities of Total Disc Parameters for Glaucoma-like and Open-Angle Glaucoma Discs Matched by Optic Disc Area Size. In: Krieglstein, G.K. (eds) Glaucoma Update IV. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76084-6_11
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