EVALUATION OF CLINICAL AND INSTRUMENTAL DATA OF EYES EXAMINATION IN PATIENTS WITH PRIMARY OPEN-ANGLE GLAUCOMA AND MACULAR DEGENERATION
Primary open-angle glaucoma and macular degeneration are the most spread diseases among blindness causes in the world. The characteristics of progression and interaction of glaucoma and macular degeneration (MD) are still being discussed. A multicenter research to assess clinical and instrumental data of eye examination of patients with glaucoma and MD was conducted between January-May 2013 in 25 clinics of Russia and CIS. The final research protocol included the data of 87people (108 eyes), divided into 2 groups: patients with glaucoma and those with glaucoma and MD on one eye. Mean age of the patients was 66.6±5.65. Variance intra- and intergroup analysis stated no statistically significant differences in the state of macular zone in patients of both groups. The obtained data make it possible to assume a successive character of MD development induced by prior developed glaucoma.