Disc torsion and vertical disc tilt are related to subfoveal scleral thickness in open-angle glaucoma patients with myopia

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 4927-4935

  Park, Hae Young Lopilly ^a,b   Choi, Soon Il ^a,b   Choi, Jin A ^a,c   Park, Chan Kee ^a,b  

^a The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

^b The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

^c The Catholic University of Korea   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Optic disc tilt; Optic disc torsion; Sclera; Swept source optical coherence tomography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CENTRAL CORNEAL THICKNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGREE OF TORSION; DISC OVALITY; EYE AXIS LENGTH; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MYOPIA; OCULOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PERIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER THICKNESS; SCLERA; SLIT LAMP; TILTING; TORSION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS; COMPLICATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FOLLOW UP; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RETINA GANGLION CELL; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOPIA; OPTIC DISK; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SCLERA; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 84939606844     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.14-15819     Document Type: Article

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