Dark Room Prone-position Test in Primary Angle-Closure Glaucoma.

Yoon, Il Sun; Hong, Chul

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1991;32(12):1086-1091.
Published online December 1, 1991.

Dark Room Prone-position Test in Primary Angle-Closure Glaucoma.

Il Sun Yoon, Chul Hong

¹Department of Ophthalmology, Capital Armed Forces General Hospitial, Korea.
²Dr. Hong's Eye Clinic, Seoul, Korea.

협우각녹내장의 암실복와위검사

윤일선(Il Sun Yoon),홍철(Chul Hong)

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.

Key Words: Provocative test;Intraocular pressure (IOP);Dark room prone-position test;Primary angle-closure glaucoma;Glaucomatous attack