5 Topic Commentaries

Calculating the Myopic Nerve

Calculating the Myopic Nerve

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  Meghan Berkenstock, MD

  Ophthalmology

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  Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins Medicine

  Based on our data, the use of a contact lens statistically improved the signal strength and average nerve fiber layer thickness of the spectral domain OCT scan.

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  Rachel Simpson, MD

  Glaucoma (Ophthalmology)

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  John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah Health

  I'll tell them, "When I look at your optic nerve, the central part of your optic nerve, which is called the optic nerve cup, looks larger than it does in the average person."

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  Paul J. Mackenzie, MD, PhD

  Glaucoma (Ophthalmology)

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  Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of British Columbia

  Myopic nerves are difficult to interpret, due to optic nerve tilt that makes evaluation of the temporal nerve, as well as the superior and inferior poles, difficult.

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  William K. Stell, MD, PhD

  Retinal neuroscience / Vision science

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  Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary

  The myope’s retina is stretched and thinned, with thin blood vessels, a distorted optic nerve head.

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  Kuldev Singh, MD, MPH

  Glaucoma (Ophthalmology)

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  Stanford University School of Medicine

  Some might say that by classic definitions, all of these patients have glaucoma," said Singh, "because they meet the optic nerve damage criteria for the disease.

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