Study identifies factors associated with rate of visual field change in patients with glaucoma

Patients with glaucoma appear to have more rapid visual field change if they are older or if they have abnormal levels of anticardiolipin antibody (an antibody directed against a certain protein in the body), according to a report posted online today that will appear in the October print issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Reducing intraocular pressure -the pressure within the eyeball -modestly in these patients appears to ameliorate the rate at which they experience declines in visual field.

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