Pattern electroretinography improves early glaucoma detection

NEW ORLEANS — Pattern electroretinography is a reliable and objective tool for diagnosing and managing glaucoma, particularly in low-risk glaucoma suspects, a speaker told colleagues here.“Pattern ERG is probably one of the most useful clinical tools for glaucoma patients and early glaucoma suspects. It has really changed who we are treating and I think, based on that, we’re doing a better job of identifying the average risk and the lower risk people who we can defer treatment on as well,” Robert J. Noecker, MD, said at Glaucoma Day preceding the (Read more...)

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