Focusing on glaucoma progression and the clinical importance of progression rate measurement: a review.

摘要: PURPOSE: This review aims to provide guidance in managing glaucoma patients more effectively. It focuses on the importance of detecting progression and measuring its rate within management primary open-angle today. Recent findings strongly indicate that continued monitoring visual fields (VFs) reassessment target intraocular pressures (IOPs) depending VF rates are mandatory glaucoma. METHODS: Data from older as well most recent literature summarized this article. In addition, article elaborates scientific content a series lectures given by experts field during several international symposia 'rate progression' 2008. RESULTS: summarizes key natural history known factors for disease progression. highlights function changes observed progresses discusses impact patients' quality life. Findings support need obtain information clinical management. Practical ways measure new software options help major parameters. Finally, basis patient's individual therapeutic assessed, such maximum medical therapy with fixed combinations. CONCLUSIONS: Estimating using newly developed analyses will be helpful forecast potential future development An individualized treatment approach then requires whom risk becoming visually impaired or blind their lifetime is higher, intensive IOP-lowering combinations can considered option. (Less)