RESEARCH ARTICLE
Staging Glaucoma Patient: Why and How?
Susanna Jr. Remo*, M. Vessani Roberto
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2009Volume: 3
First Page: 59
Last Page: 64
Publisher ID: TOOPHTJ-3-59
DOI: 10.2174/1874364100903010059
Article History:
Received Date: 25/1/2009Revision Received Date: 16/5/2009
Acceptance Date: 21/5/2009
Electronic publication date: 17/9/2009
Collection year: 2009
open-access license: This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
Abstract
Staging glaucomatous damage into appropriatecategories enhances management of the disease. Automated static perimetry is the benchmark for testing visual function in glaucoma. Numerous examples of standard automated perimetry staging systems have been proposed but difficulties such as lack of accuracy, absence of information related to location and depth of the defect(s) and need of time-consuming analysis of every visual field test result may reduce their day-to-day clinical usefulness.A new visual field staging system is proposed: the University of São Paulo Glaucoma Visual Field Staging System (USP-GVFSS). In this system, qualitative and quantitative characteristics of the visual field defect are described. The method is intuitive, comprehensible and describes severity, extension and hemi field involvement.
