Background: To define age-related changes in the visual field by comparing 'standard' central and unique peripheral visual field measurements in healthy volunteers.
Methods:
In a single center, retrospective, Cross-sectional, observational study, 20 volunteers with no retinal diseases or risk factors, ranging in age between 30 and 94 years (four age groups: 30’s, 50’s, 70’s, 90’s) were measured in one eye (preferentially the right one) using a Humphrey visual field 24–2 and 60–4.
Results:
While the central visual field remained relatively well preserved during aging showing only a mild reduction in sensitivity, a profound loss of the peripheral visual field was observed beginning in the fifth decade of life and decreasing continuously up to the 90ies.
Conclusions:
The peripheral visual field declined substantially from the 4th decade onward while the central visual field remained quite stable.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:30612 |
| Date | 09 November 2017 |
| Creators | Rutkowski, Paul, May, Christian Albrecht |
| Publisher | BioMed Central |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | 10.1186/s12886-017-0522-3 |
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