title: A erimetric technique believed to test receptive field properties: sequential evaluation glaucoma and other conditions.
abstract: We used a technique to simplify and speed up a perimetric test (Westheimer function). Through sequential testing, the technique was successfully used to evaluate pathologic findings and partially to evaluate treatment regimens in three subjects. One patient had an onset of kinetic field changes and Westheimer function alteration with primary open-angle glaucoma. Temporary remissions of alterations in the Westheimer function and kinetic visual field loss occurred in patients with glaucoma and tobacco-alcohol (complicated) amblyopia. Using these techniques it is possible to localize an anomaly in the outer retinal layer, the inner retinal layer, and central to the optic nerve head. We divided the inner and outer retinal layers on a vascular support basis.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000550:Amblyopia / Q000188:drug therapy; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D005260:Female; D005901:Glaucoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D006879:Hydroxocobalamin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010672:Phenytoin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D012160:Retina / Q000473:pathology; D014065:Tonometry, Ocular; D058609:Visual Field Tests / Q000379:methods*; D014794:Visual Fields
chemical_list: D010672:Phenytoin; D006879:Hydroxocobalamin