Sasan Moghimi, Shahbaz Nekoozadeh, Nazgol Motamed-Gorji, Rebecca Chen, Masoud Aghsaei Fard, Massood Mohammadi, Robert N Weinreb
Purpose: To better understand the relationship of lamina cribrosa (LC) and choroid features to the severity of pseudoexfoliation glaucoma (PXG). Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 137 eyes of 122 subjects (47 eyes with moderate/advanced PXG [mean deviation (MD), -15.0 ± 7.7 dB], 34 eyes with mild PXG [MD, -2.7 ± 1.5 dB], 32 aged-matched pseudoexfoliation syndrome [PXS] eyes, and 24 aged-matched control eyes) were investigated. Optic discs, LC thickness, and anterior LC depth (ALD; midsuperior, center, and midinferior) as well as peripapillary choroidal thickness were determined...
November 1, 2018: Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science