Abstract |
Fifty-six ocular hypertension (OHT) patients were examined for 2-3 days in the Eye Clinic of Kuopio University Hospital. No glaucomatous changes were found. Twenty-seven of them were found to have several risk factors for developing glaucoma and medication was started. Twenty-nine of the patients did not show risk factors and had no medication. Color vision was examined with the Farnsworth-Munsell 100 ( FM 100) hue test and Besançon anomalometer, later Color Vision Meter 712 at the beginning of the study and 3 years later. None of the 56 patients showed any glaucomatous changes after 3 years of the study. In the treatment group, the FM 100 test showed significantly (paired t-test, p = 0.004) improved error scores after 3 years. In the non-treatment group, 19 patients did not develop risk factors; they had no significant changes in the color vision results. In 10 patients of the non-treatment group, risk factors had developed with elevated intraocular pressure and medication was started for them after 3 years. Their color vision results in the blue anomalous quotient (AQ) of the anomalometer had significantly shifted to the blue part of the equation (paired t-test, p = 0.04). The other color vision results had not changed significantly. The significantly improved FM 100 scores in the treatment group could mean, that the treatment has a beneficial effect for the OHT eyes at risk for developing glaucoma.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
|
Authors | M Mäntyjärvi, K Tuppurainen |
Journal | International ophthalmology
(Int Ophthalmol)
1994-1995
Vol. 18
Issue 6
Pg. 345-9
ISSN: 0165-5701 [Print] Netherlands |
PMID | 7642334
(Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
|
Topics |
- Adult
- Aged
- Color Perception
(physiology)
- Color Perception Tests
- Female
- Follow-Up Studies
- Humans
- Intraocular Pressure
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Ocular Hypertension
(drug therapy, physiopathology)
- Risk Factors
|