Pattern-reversal electroretinograms (PERG) and visual evoked potentials (P-VEP) were measured for 10 eyes from 10 rigorously selected patients with bilateral advanced primary open angle glaucoma (POAG), before and after surgical trabeculectomy. The aim was to establish whether electrofunctional examinations improved after major IOP reduction. Only one eye at random was operated, and the fellow eye was used as control. The aim of this study, using electrofunctional examinations, was to clarify whether ganglion cell damage was reversible after marked reduction of IOP by surgery.
The results indicate that glaucomatous damage seems to be irreversible.
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