Dark Room Prone-position Test in Primary Angle-Closure Glaucoma.
- Author:
Il Sun YOON
1
;
Chul HONG
Author Information
1. Department of Ophthalmology, Capital Armed Forces General Hospitial, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Provocative test;
Intraocular pressure (IOP);
Dark room prone-position test;
Primary angle-closure glaucoma;
Glaucomatous attack
- MeSH:
Glaucoma, Angle-Closure*;
Glaucoma, Open-Angle;
Humans
- From:Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society
1991;32(12):1086-1091
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
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Abstract:
To evaluate clinical availability of the Dark Room Prone-position Test (DRPT), which is one of the provocative tests of angle-closure glaucoma, this study was carried out. Twenty nine patients (43 eyes) with primary angle-closure glaucoma (PACG) were enrolled, and seventeen primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) patients (34 eyes) arld fourty one normal persons (82 eyes) were used as control group. After DRPT, P ACG showed statistically significant intraocu lar pressure (IOP) rise of 6.3 +/- 6.82mmHg as compared with group of POAG or normal 2.0 +/- 2.04mmHg and 1.4 +/- 1.47mmHg, respectively (p<0.05). Fifteen eyes among 43eyes (34.9%) of PACG showed DRPT positive defined as over 7mmHg rise after DRPT, and the final IOP of DRPT over 21mmHg showed significant DRPT positive (43.5%) than that of under 20mmHg (0.00%) (p<0.05). Glaucomatous attack was more occurred 1.9 times in DRPT postive group than in DRPT negative one.
