Comparative evaluation of oculokinetic perimetry and conventional perimetry in glaucoma.
Oculokinetic perimetry is a new method of visual field assessment in which the patient moves the eye around a central static target to look sequentially at an array of numbers. When fixation on a number is accompanied by disappearance of the central target, that number is deleted from a recording chart. Inversion of the recording chart gives a plot of the central visual field. In this study we have shown that in 64 eyes of 37 patients, with unequivocal field loss attending a glaucoma clinic, the test is efficient and reliable when compared with conventional static (Dicon 3000) and kinetic (Tübingen Oculus) field tests. The results were identical in 88% of eyes tested and approximately comparable in another 6%. Quantitative equivalent targets for the different methods are described. Oculokinetic perimetry was carried out by a previously untrained person, and it is suggested that this new method merits further study as a screening device for glaucoma in the community.
Alvarez
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Tennent Institute of Ophthalmology, University of Glasgow, Western Infirmary.
Damato
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Jay
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McClure
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D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005133:Eye Movements; D005260:Female; D005901:Glaucoma / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D058609:Visual Field Tests / Q000379:methods*; D014794:Visual Fields