NCT01346904

a 3.0T Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study

The Central Nerve System Injury in Patients With Primary Open Angle Glaucoma

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 200 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Huazhong University of Science and Technology · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Glaucomatous damage not only occurred to retinal ganglion cells in the eyes, but went across optic nerves, visual chiasm, lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN) and finally the visual cortex; the neural degenerations could be identified through the whole visual tract, which suggests the central nerve system may play a vital role in the progression of glaucoma. The investigators used MRI to investigate changes of visual pathway in vivo.

Conditions

• Primary Open Angle Glaucoma

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-05-01
• Primary completion: 2012-12-01
• Completion: 2012-12-01
• First posted: 2011-05-03
• Last updated: 2011-05-03