The Influence of Surgical and Medical Interventions upon Optic Disc Structure in Patients with Primary Open Angle Glaucoma
2011-08-24HuiXiaoXingLiuYiminZhongZhenMao
Hui Xiao, Xing Liu, Yimin Zhong, Zhen Mao
State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sun University, Guangzhou 510060,China


Materials and methods
Study subjects


Study procedure


Statistical analysis

Results
IOP changes between operation and medicine groups before and after treatment


Table 1 IOP and IOP variations observed at 6 time points between surgical and medical groups (mean ± s)

The influence of trabeculectomy upon the structure parameters of the optic disc


The influence of medical treatment upon optic disc structure parameters


Table 2 Optic disc parameter changes over time before and after trabeculectomy (mean± s)

Table 3 Comparison of optic disc parameters before and at various time points after operation (mean± s)

Table 4 Comparison of optic disc parameters before and at various time points after drug intervention (mean± s)

Figure 1 Optic disc topography changes before and after surgical and medicine treatment(The green color indicates improvement was observed compared with the first detection)

Factors influencing optic disc parameter variations after trabeculectomy correlation analysis between IOP reduction and optic disc structure parameter variation

Correlation analysis between preoperative MD and 1 year postoperative optic disc structure parameters

Discussion
The influence of surgical treatment upon optic disc topography parameters


The influence of medicine treatment upon optic disc topography parameters


Factors influencing the postoperative changes in optic disc structure parameters




