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C. Nucci et al. (Eds.)

Progress in Brain Research, Vol. 173

ISSN 0079-6123

Copyright r 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved

CHAPTER 8

Short-wavelength automated perimetry and frequency-doubling technology perimetry

in glaucoma

Paolo Fogagnolo1, , Luca Rossetti2, Stefano Ranno2, Antonio Ferreras3 and

Nicola Orzalesi2

1G.B. Bietti Foundation – IRCCS (Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico), Rome, Italy

2Eye Clinic, Department of Medicine, Surgery and Odontoiatry, San Paolo Hospital, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

3Department of Ophthalmology, Miguel Servet University Hospital, Zaragoza, Spain

Abstract: Standard automated perimetry (SAP) is today still the clinical standard for the management of glaucoma and its progression, though it has been shown that it may detect the disease only after the death of a high number of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs). A number of ‘‘unconventional’’ perimetries have recently been evaluated by several clinical studies which showed their ability to identify the earliest glaucoma changes; the most promising of these techniques are short-wavelength automated perimetry (SWAP) and frequency-doubling technology perimetry (FDT). The applicability of these techniques is still limited by a number of factors: the limited economic resources allocated to perimetry; the paucity of wellconducted, prospective longitudinal studies showing the superiority of SWAP and FDT over SAP; and the lack of a consensus on the criteria to define test abnormality with these techniques. The aim of this article is to review the rationale, the limits, and the potentiality of SWAP and FDT for glaucoma management and to summarize the tasks required to improve the clinical usefulness of these two instruments in the future.

Keywords: glaucoma; standard automated perimetry; short-wavelength automated perimetry (SWAP); frequency-doubling technology perimetry (FDT); matrix; retinal ganglion cells

Introduction

Perimetry still remains the ‘‘gold standard’’ for diagnosis of glaucoma and of its progression, as confirmed by the recent glaucoma trials (AGIS, 1994; CNTGSG, 1998; Gordon and Kass, 1999; Leske et al., 1999; Musch et al., 1999; CGS, 2006),

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on which visual field changes were considered the primary endpoint for progression. Nevertheless, it is often quoted that glaucomatous defects involving about 30% to 50% of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) may be undetected by automated achromatic static perimetry (standard automated perimetry, SAP) (Harwerth et al., 1999).

The logical extension of this finding is that by the time SAP defects are detected, the disease is already at a relatively advanced stage, questioning the justification of investments to perform SAP tests. Hence, over the last two decades, research

DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(08)01108-4

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