Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, Vol 36, 1398-1410, Copyright © 1995 by Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology

ARTICLES AND REPORTS

The statistical interpretation of blue-on-yellow visual field loss

JM Wild, ID Moss, D Whitaker and EC O'Neill
Department of Vision Sciences, Aston University, United Kingdom.

PURPOSE. To evaluate short-wavelength-sensitive perimetry in the detection of glaucomatous field loss. METHODS. The sample consisted of 27 normal subjects, 24 patients with primary open angle glaucoma (POAG), and 27 patients with ocular hypertension (OHT). Blue-on-yellow (B-Y) and standard (W-W) perimetry was undertaken with a modified Humphrey Field Analyzer 640 on one eye of each subject and patient. The B-Y data were corrected for individual ocular media absorption. Results were compared to an age-matched normal database of 50 subjects (age range, 60 to 82 years; mean age, 70.0 years; SD, 6.4 years). Visual field indices and total and pattern deviation probability maps were calculated for both W-W and B-Y fields. RESULTS. The B-Y normal database exhibited increased between-subject variability compared to the W-W normal database (P < 0.001). The greater variability increased with the increase in eccentricity (P < 0.001) and with the increase in age (P = 0.032). All patients with POAG exhibited B-Y field loss; 11 demonstrated greater B-Y loss than the corresponding W-W field. In advanced POAG, the B-Y and the W-W fields were similar. Twenty-five of the 27 normal subjects exhibited normal B-Y fields. Five of the 27 patients with OHT manifested B-Y focal abnormality and a normal W-W field: in two, W-W focal loss subsequently developed. CONCLUSIONS. Short-wavelength-sensitive perimetry can identify visual field loss before that detected by W-W perimetry. However, the increased between- subject variability necessitates stringent statistical analysis in the definition of abnormality.

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