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- Title
Intraocular pressure correlates with optic nerve sheath diameter in patients with normal tension glaucoma.
- Authors
Abegão Pinto, Luís; Vandewalle, Evelien; Pronk, Anna; Stalmans, Ingeborg
- Abstract
Purpose: 1. Identify differences in optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) as an indirect measure of intracranial pressure (ICP) in glaucoma patients and a healthy population. 2. Identify variables that may correlate with ONSD in primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and normal tension glaucoma (NTG) patients. Methods: Patients with NTG ( n = 46) and POAG ( n = 61), and healthy controls ( n = 42) underwent B-scan ultrasound measurement of ONSD by an observer masked to the patient diagnosis. Intraocular pressure (IOP) was measured in all groups, with additional central corneal thickness (CCT) and visual field defect measurements in glaucomatous patients. Only one eye per patient was selected. Kruskal-Wallis or Mann-Whitney were used to compare the different variables between the diagnostic groups. Spearman correlations were used to explore relationships among these variables. Results: ONSD was not significantly different between healthy, NTG and POAG patients (6.09 ± 0.78, 6.03 ± 0.69, and 5.71 ± 0.83 respectively; p = 0.08). Visual field damage and CCT were not correlated with ONSD in either of the glaucoma groups (POAG, p = 0.31 and 0.44; NTG, p = 0.48 and 0.90 respectively). However, ONSD did correlate with IOP in NTG patients ( r = 0.53, p < 0.001), while it did not in POAG patients and healthy controls ( p = 0.86, p = 0.46 respectively). Patient's age did not relate to ONSD in any of the groups ( p > 0.25 in all groups). Conclusions: Indirect measurements of ICP by ultrasound assessment of the ONSD may provide further insights into the retrolaminar pressure component in glaucoma. The correlation of ONSD with IOP solely in NTG patients suggests that the translaminar pressure gradient may be of particular importance in this type of glaucoma.
- Subjects
INTRAOCULAR pressure; OPTIC nerve; GLAUCOMA; INTRACRANIAL pressure; VISUAL fields; ULTRASONIC imaging; CRANIAL nerves
- Publication
Graefe's Archive of Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology, 2012, Vol 250, Issue 7, p1075
- ISSN
0721-832X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00417-011-1878-3