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- Title
Comparison of visual field defect progression in secondary Glaucoma due to anterior uveitis caused by three types of herpes viruses.
- Authors
Shirahama, Shintaro; Kaburaki, Toshikatsu; Takada, Sachiko; Nakahara, Hisae; Tanaka, Rie; Komae, Keiko; Fujino, Yujiro; Kawashima, Hidetoshi; Aihara, Makoto
- Abstract
Purpose: To clarify the prevalence of secondary glaucoma (SG) and its speed of progression in patients with herpes simplex virus (HSV)-anterior uveitis (AU), varicella zoster virus (VZV)-AU, and cytomegalovirus (CMV)-AU. Methods: In total, 170 patients with herpetic AU were enrolled in this retrospective observational case series. Patients with visual field (VF) defects and glaucomatous disc abnormalities were diagnosed with SG. Moreover, the speed of SG progression was defined as decreasing mean deviation (MD) values per year. SG prevalence and annual MD-value decrease were compared among the three types of herpetic AU. Results: SG prevalence was 16%, 9%, and 72% in patients with HSV-AU, VZV-AU, and CMV-AU, respectively. Patients with CMV-AU had the highest SG prevalence (odds ratio = 3.15; 95% confidence interval = 1.15–8.65; P < 0.05). Furthermore, the annual MD-value change was significantly higher in SG caused by CMV-AU than in that caused by HSV/VZV-AU (−2.6 ± 2.4 dB/year and −0.45 ± 0.54 dB/year, respectively; P < 0.05). Conclusions: Our results demonstrated that patients with CMV-AU may have a higher risk and faster speed of progression of SG than patients with HSV/VZV-AU. Therefore, clinicians should monitor glaucoma onset and VF-defect progression in patients with CMV-AU.
- Subjects
SCOTOMA; IRIDOCYCLITIS; OPTIC disc; HERPES simplex virus; HERPESVIRUS diseases; GLAUCOMA; VARICELLA-zoster virus
- Publication
Graefe's Archive of Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology, 2020, Vol 258, Issue 3, p639
- ISSN
0721-832X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00417-019-04559-w