To detect glaucoma progression, physicians need to look at all available data and imaging, according to a presentation at Real World Ophthalmology.
Nina A. Goyal, MD, FACS, said the three tests often used to detect glaucoma progression are optic nerve photography, visual field test and OCT of the optic nerve.
“As you’ll notice, I have nowhere on this slide listed IOP because IOP is event based, and we want to look at trend-based data,” she said.
It is often hard to quantify signs of progression, such as cup-to-disc ratio, using data alone. To detect progression, she takes