Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

Glaucoma

Eye volume 11, pages 900–903 (1997)Cite this article

Download PDF

References

  1. Quigley HA, Addicks EA, Green R, Maumanee AE . Optic nerve damage in human glaucoma. 2. The site of injury and susceptibility to damage. Arch Ophthalmol 1948;99:635–49.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Sommer A, Katz J, Quigley HA, Miller NR, Robin AL, Richter RC, Witt KA . Clinically detectable nerve fiber atrophy precedes the onset of glaucomatous field loss. Arch Ophthalmol 1991;109:77–83.

    CAS  Article  Google Scholar 

  3. Drance SM, Lakowski R, Schulzer M, Douglas GR . Acquired colour vision changes in glaucoma. Arch Ophthalmol 1981;99:829–31.

    CAS  Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Heijl A, Lindgren G, Olsson MS . Normal variability of static perimetric values across the central visual field. Arch Ophthalmol 1987;105:1544–9.

    CAS  Article  Google Scholar 

  5. Bodis-Wallner J, Sokol S, editors. Electrophysiology and psychophysics: their use in ophthalmic diagnosis. Int Ophthalmol Clin 1980;20:135–53.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  6. Quigley HA, Dunkelberger GR, Green WR . Chronic human glaucoma causing selectively greater loss of large optic nerve fibers. Ophthalmology 1988;95:357–63.

    CAS  Article  Google Scholar 

  7. Baez KA, McNaught. Motion detection threshold and field progression in normal tension glaucoma (unpublished). 1994.

  8. Arden GB . The importance of measuring contrast sensitivity in cases of visual disturbance. Br J Ophthalmol 1978;62:198–209.

    CAS  Article  Google Scholar 

  9. Arden GB . Visual loss in patients with normal visual acuity. Trans Ophthalmol Soc UK 1978;98:219–31.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  10. Arden GB, Jacobsen JI . A simple grating test for contrast sensitivity: preliminary results indicate value in screening for glaucoma. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 1978;17:23–32.

    CAS  PubMed  PubMed Central  Google Scholar 

  11. Arden GB, Gucugoglu AG . Grating test of contrasting sensitivity in patients with retrobulbar neuritis. Arch Ophthalmol 1978;96:1262–9.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  12. Cooper RL, Constable I . Mass screening for glaucoma and other eye disease using the Arden Grating test. Aust N Z J Ophthalmol 1980;18:131–7.

    Google Scholar 

  13. Weatherhead RG . Use of the Arden Grating test for screening. Br J Ophthalmol 1980;64:591–6.

    CAS  Article  Google Scholar 

  14. GP. Eye screening in General Practice with the Arden Grating test. BMJ 1981;282:1279–80.

  15. Hitchings RA, Powell DJ, Arden GB, Carter RM . Contrast sensitivity gratings in glaucoma family screening. Br J Ophthalmol 1981;65:515–7.

    CAS  Article  Google Scholar 

  16. Derefeldt G, Lennerstrand G, Lundh B . Age variations in normal human contrast sensitivity. Acta Ophthalmol (Copenh) 1979;57:679–90.

    CAS  Article  Google Scholar 

  17. Skalka HW . The effect of age on Arden Grating acuity. Br J Ophthalmol 1979;64:21–3.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  18. Editorial. Making sense of contrast sensitivity testing. Has its time come? Arch Ophthalmol 1987;105:627–9.

  19. Mannis MJ . Contrast sensitivity after penetrating keratoplasty. Arch Ophthalmol 1987;105:1220–3.

    CAS  Article  Google Scholar 

  20. Drance SM, Airaksinen PJ, Price M, Schulzer M, Douglas GR, Tansley B . The use of psychophysical structural, and electrodiagnostic parameters to identify glaucomatous damage. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 1987;225:365–8.

    CAS  Article  Google Scholar 

  21. Vaegan, Halliday B . A forced choice test improves clinical contrast sensitivity testing. Br J Ophthalmol 1982;66:477–91.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  22. Regan D, Neima D . Low contrast letter charts as a test of visual function. Ophthalmology 1983;90:1192–200.

    CAS  Article  Google Scholar 

  23. Arden GB, Vaegan, Hogg CR . Clinical and experimental evidence that the Pattern Electroretinogram (PERG) is generated in more proximal retinal layers than the focal electroretinogram. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1982;388:580–607.

    CAS  Article  Google Scholar 

  24. Maffei L, Fiorentini A . Electroretinographic responses to alternating gratings before and after section of the optic nerve. Science 1981;211:953–6.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  25. Seiple W, Price MJ, Kupersmith M, Siegal IM, Carr RE . The PERG in optic nerve disease. Ophthalmology 1983;90:1127–32.

    CAS  Article  Google Scholar 

  26. Wanger P, Persson HE . Pattern-reversal electroretino-grams in unilateral glaucoma. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 1983;24:749–53.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

  27. Holder GE . Significance of abnormal pattern electro-retinography in anterior visual pathway dysfunction. Br J Ophthalmol 1987;71:166–71.

    CAS  Article  Google Scholar 

  28. Weinstein GW, Arden GB, Hitchings RA, Ryan S, Calthorpe CM, Odom JV . The pattern of electroretinogram (PERG) in ocular hypertension and glaucoma. Arch Ophthalmol 1988;106:923–8.

    CAS  Article  Google Scholar 

  29. Yablonski ME, Zimmerman TJ, Kass MA, Becker B . Prognostic significance of optic disc cupping in ocular hypertensive patients. Am J Ophthalmol 1980;89:585–92.

    CAS  Article  Google Scholar 

  30. O'Sullivan F, Arden GB, Hitchings RA . Longitudinal changes in a cohort of patients with ocular hypertension and glaucoma tested with the pattern ERG. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 1991;32:1192.

    Google Scholar 

  31. Ruben ST, Arden GB, O'Sullivan F, Hitchings RA . The pattern electroretinogram and peripheral colour contrast thresholds in ocular hypertension and glaucoma, comparison and correlation of results. Br J Ophthalmol 1995;79:326–31.

    CAS  Article  Google Scholar 

  32. Ruben S, Hitchings RA, Fitzke F, Arden GB . Electrophysiology and psychophysics in ocular hypertension and glaucoma: evidence for different patho-mechanisms in early glaucoma. Eye 1994;8:516–20.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  33. Sturmer J, Poinoosawmy D, Broadway DC, Hitchings RA . Intra- and inter-observer variation of optic nerve head measurements in glaucoma suspects using discdata. Int Ophthalmol 1992;16:227–33.

    CAS  Article  Google Scholar 

  34. Ruben S, Fitzke F . Correlation of peripheral thresholds and optic disc parameters in ocular hypertension. Br J Ophthalmol 1994;78:291–4.

    CAS  Article  Google Scholar 

  35. Ruben S . Estimation of optic disc size using indirect biomicroscopy. Br J Ophthalmol 1994;78:363–4.

    CAS  Article  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Affiliations

  1. London

    R A Hitchings

Authors
  1. R A Hitchings
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

Presented at a symposium in London, 29 September 1995, in honour of Professor Geoffrey Arden.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and Permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Hitchings, R. Glaucoma. Eye 11, 900–903 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/eye.1997.229

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/eye.1997.229

Keywords

  • Contrast sensitivity
  • PERG
  • OHT

Search

Advanced search

Quick links