Healio

Poorer driving, more collisions observed with glaucomatous visual field defects

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Patients with more significant visual field defects made more driving errors and had more collisions. They were ...
Nature

Discrepancy and agreement between subjective symptoms and visual field impairment in glaucoma patients at a driving assessment clinic

We investigated subjective symptoms during driving in 227 glaucoma patients at a driving assessment clinic. Patients underwent testing with the Humphrey Field Analyzer 24–2 (HFA 24–2) and a driving ...
Nature

Optic nerve head factors associated with initial central visual field defect in primary open-angle glaucoma

In total, 182 primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) eyes that had undergone an optical coherence tomography angiography (OCT-A) examination and had an isolated IPFS or initial nasal step (INS) were ...

Erucamide molecule strengthens the eye's response to damage in retinal disease

Many conditions that cause vision loss share a common feature: the gradual breakdown of the retina, the light-sensing tissue at the back of the eye. Although scientists know some of the structural ...

U of M researchers awarded $2.2M grant to study causes of age-related blindness

The University of Minnesota Medical School has received a four-year, $2.2 million grant to study the causes and potential ...