2020–2021 BCSC Basic and Clinical Science Course™
10 Glaucoma
Chapter 11: Glaucoma in Children and Adolescents
Evaluating the Pediatric Glaucoma Patient
Visual Field Testing
Assessment of the visual field in children is useful, but the testing process can be challenging. Automated testing can begin at age 5 years; the results become more reliable as the child approaches 7–8 years of age. As for adults, abnormalities should be confirmed with repeat testing. Although there is no normative database for children, the age correction for mean deviation is small (0.7 dB/decade). Other indices, the pattern standard deviation, the glaucoma hemifield test, and glaucoma change probability are largely unaffected by age.
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Patel DE, Cumberland PM, Walters BC, Russell-Eggitt I, Cortina-Borja M, Rahi JS; OPTIC Study Group. Study of optimal perimetric testing in children (OPTIC): normative visual field values in children. Ophthalmology. 2015;122(8):1711–1717.
Excerpted from BCSC 2020-2021 series: Section 10 - Glaucoma. For more information and to purchase the entire series, please visit https://www.aao.org/bcsc.