Assessing Structure and Function in Glaucoma
(Bepalen van structuur en functie in glaucoom)
2005-11-16
Doctoral Thesis
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Glaucoma is a heterogeneous group of optic nerve diseases sharing an accelerated degeneration of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) that, if untreated, leads to progressive and irreversible loss of visual function. Worldwide, glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness. Of the many types of glaucoma, primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is probably the most common one in Western countries. Probably less than half of all people who have the disease are aware of it.
The
author
wishes to thank:
Stichting Glaucoomfonds, Leiden
Keywords
- structure
- ECC
- GDx
- HFA
- HRT
- SLP
- SWAP
- VCC
- blue-yellow perimetry
- confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy
- function
- glaucoma
- ophthalmology
- red-free fundus photography
- scanning laser polarimetry
- short-wavelength automated perimetry
- standard automated perimetry
Automatically Extracted Terms
- glaucoma
- patient
- measurement
- field
- gdx vcc
- retardation
- glaucomatou
- subject
- scanning laser polarimetry
- nerve
- segment birefringence
- ophthalmol
- birefringence
- laser
- glaucoma patients
- fiber
- segment
- field loss
- scanning
- image
