Abstract

Glaucomatous damage to optic nerve fibers may be either localized or diffuse¹. Localized losses typically occur outside the macular area as defects of the retinal nerve fibre layer and may prove difficult to detect using standard perimetric techniques². Recently we report that a nerve fibre bundle defect could be detected better using equiluminous color perimetry than the usual achromatic (white) target³. This raises the possibility that color perimetry may be more sensitive in finding glaucomatous damage than the present achromatic methods, as has been reported for two cases of maculopathy⁴. In this paper we considered this possibility by performing static meridional (sectional) perimetry on two glaucomatous patients using white and equiluminous red and blue targets.

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