SAN FRANCISCO — Glaucoma is associated with an increased risk for motor vehicle collisions, but more advanced methods of testing are needed to determine the level of driving safety in individual patients, according to a speaker here.
“The problem is, at what level of disease severity are [patients] really at high risk?” Felipe A. Medeiros, MD, PhD, said at Glaucoma Subspecialty Day at the American Academy of Ophthalmology meeting.
According to Medeiros, traditional assessment methods such as standard automated perimetry do not present an accurate predictive value for