Relationship between corneal thickness and optic disc damage in glaucoma

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 158-163

  Hewitt, Alex W ^a   Cooper, Richard L ^b  

^a ROYAL HOBART HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b Tasmanian Eye Clinics   (Australia)

Author keywords

Central corneal thickness; Cup to disc ratio; Glaucoma; Optic disc cup; Severity

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA THICKNESS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOOCULOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MEASUREMENT; OPTIC DISK ANOMALY; OPTIC DISK CUP; PATHOGENESIS; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGED; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; CORNEA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES;

EID: 18644384719     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2005.00971.x     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Jonas JB, Bergua A, Schmitz-Valckenberg P, Papastathopoulos KI, Budde WM. Ranking of optic disc variables for detection of glaucomatous optic nerve damage. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2000; 41: 1764-73.
2. Gordon MO, Beiser JA, Brandt JD et al. The Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study: Baseline factors that predict the onset of primary open-angle glaucoma. Arch Ophthalmol 2002; 120: 714-20.
3. Garway-Heath DF, Ruben ST, Viswanathan A, Hitchings RA. Vertical cup/disc ratio in relation to optic disc size: its value in the assessment of the glaucoma suspect. Br J Ophthalmol 1998; 82: 1118-24.
4. Bengtsson B. The alteration and asymmetry of cup and disc diameters. Acta Ophthalmologica 1980; 58: 726-32.
5. Herndon LW, Choudhri SA, Cox T, Damji KF, Shields MB, Allingham RR. Central corneal thickness in normal, glaucomatous, and ocular hypertensive eyes. Arch Ophthalmol 1997; 115: 1137-41.
6. Kamal D, Hitchings R. Normal tension glaucoma - a practical approach. Br J Ophthalmol 1998; 82: 835-40.
7. Lee GA, Khaw PT, Flicker LA, Shah P. The corneal thickness and intraocular pressure story: where are we now? Clin Experiment Ophthalmol 2002; 30: 334-7.
8. Ehlers N, Hansen FK. Central corneal thickness in low-tension glaucoma. Acta Ophthalmologica 1974; 52: 740-6.
9. Sobottka Ventura AC, Bohnke M, Mojon DS. Central corneal thickness measurements in patients with normal tension glaucoma, primary open angle glaucoma, pseudoexfoliation glaucoma, or ocular hypertension. Br J Ophthalmol 2001; 85: 792-5.
10. Ehlers N, Bramsen T, Sperling S. Applanation tonometry and central corneal thickness. Acta Ophthalmologica 1975; 53: 34-43.
11. Medeiros FA, Sample PA, Zangwill AM, Bowd C, Aihara M, Weinreb PN. Corneal thickness as a risk factor for visual field loss in patients with preperimetric glaucomatous optic neuropathy. Am J Ophthalmol 2003; 136: 805-13.
12. Herndon LW, Weizer JS, Stinnett SS. Central corneal thickness as a risk factor for advanced glaucoma damage. Arch Ophthalmol 2004; 122: 17-21.
13. Hasslett RS, Batterbury M, Cuypers M, Cooper RL. Interobserver agreement in clinical optic disc measurement using a modified 60 D lens. Eye 1997; 11: 692-7.
14. Jonas JB, Montgomery DMI. Determination of the neuroretinal rim area using the horizontal and vertical disc and cup diameters. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 1993; 233: 690-3.
15. Montgomery DMI. Measurement of optic disc and neuroretinal rim areas in normal and glaucomatous eyes. Ophthalmology 1991; 98: 50-9.
16. Jonas JB, Gusek GC, Naumann GOH. Optic disc, cup and neuroretinal rim size, configuration and correlations in normal eyes. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 1998; 29: 1151-8.
17. Healey PR, Mitchell P, Smith W, Wang JJ. Relationship between cup-disc ratio and optic disc diameter: the Blue Mountains Eye study. Aust NZ J Ophthalmol 1997; 25 (Suppl. 1): S99-101.
18. Jonas JB, Zach FM, Gusek GC, Naumann GOH. Pseudoglaucomatous physiologic large cups. Am J Ophthalmol 1989; 107: 137-44.
19. Cooper RL, Alder VA, Constable IJ. Measurment of cup-disc ratios: statistical evaluation of intraobserver and interobserver error. Glaucoma 1982; 4: 169-76.
20. Australian Bureau of Statistics. Census of Population and Housing: Selected Social and Housing Characteristics For Statistical Local Areas, Tasmania. Cat. no. 2015.6.2001. Ancestry by birthplace. Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2002.
21. Emara BY, Tingey DP, Probst LE, Motolko MA. Central corneal thickness in low-tension glaucoma. Can J Ophthalmol 1999; 34: 319-24.
22. Copt RP, Thomas R, Mermoud A. Corneal thickness in ocular hypertension, primary open-angle glaucoma and normal tension glaucoma. Arch Ophthalmol 1999; 117: 14-16.
23. Henriques MJ, Vessani RM, Reis FA, de Almeida GV, Betinjane AJ, Susanna R Jr. Corneal thickness in congenital glaucoma. J Glaucoma 13: 2004, 185-8.
24. Foster PJ, Machin D, Wong TY et al. Determinants of intraocular pressure and its association with glaucomatous optic neuropathy in Chinese Singaporeans: the Tanjong Pagar Study. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2003; 44: 3885-91.
25. Akar Y, Orhan M, Irkec M, Karaagaoglu E. Major determinants of optic nerve head topographic characteristics in a normal Turkish population. Clin Experiment Ophthalmol 2004; 32: 9-13.
26. Whitacre MM, Stein RA, Hassanein K. The effect of corneal thickness on applanation tonometry. Am J Ophthalmol 1993; 115: 592-6.
27. Lleo A, Marcos A, Calatayud M, Alonso L, Rahhal SM, Sanchis-Gimeno JA. The relationship between central corneal thickness and Goldmann applanation tonometry. Clin Exp Optom 2003; 86: 104-8.