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ReviewCurrent opinion in ophthalmology2017

Lamina cribrosa in glaucoma.

J Crawford Downs, Christopher A Girkin

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Review in Current opinion in ophthalmology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 85 papers.

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85citing papers in PubMed
7.3field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

85 citing papers in PubMed, 143 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Review
  2. Intrinsic Capacity, Polygenic Risk Score, and Risk of Glaucoma.Translational vision science & technology · 2026
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  9. Two-Photon Fabrication of Donor-Specific Human Lamina Cribrosa Models.Translational vision science & technology · 2025
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  14. Pericytes in the optic nerve head.Progress in retinal and eye research · 2025
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  17. Role of Microglia in Glaucomatous Pathology.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2025
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  19. CNN-Based Device-Agnostic Feature Extraction From ONH OCT Scans.Translational vision science & technology · 2024
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25 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

J Crawford DownsDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.
Christopher A Girkin
University of Alabama at Birmingham · US

Funding

Age-related changes in optic nerve head structure and biomechanicsR01EY018926 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI DOWNS, J CRAWFORD, GIRKIN, CHRISTOPHER ANTHONY · 2008 to 2015
$2.6M
IOP and OPP Fluctuation as Risk Factors for GlaucomaR01EY024732 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM · PI DOWNS, J CRAWFORD · 2015 to 2017
$820k
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY018926NEI NIH HHS R01 EY024732
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewThis article presents, summarizes, and interprets the most recent advances in the study and understanding of the lamina cribrosa in glaucoma, in the context of previous work. RECENT

findingsThe lamina is an active living structure that responds to strain by changing morphology at the micro-scale and macro-scale in glaucoma. Changes in lamina cribrosa morphology in glaucoma include posteriorization of the laminar insertion into the sclera, increased cupping or depth of the lamina cribrosa, and the development of focal lamina cribrosa defects. These lamina cribrosa changes are associated with disk hemorrhages and visual field damage, and are detectable with clinical imaging techniques such as optical coherence tomography. Glaucomatous changes in the lamina cribrosa are thought to be driven by cellular processes mediated by focal cyclical mechanical strain. Strain is eye specific and mediated by intraocular pressure, cerebrospinal fluid pressure, scleral and lamina cribrosa morphology, and structural stiffness; deleterious lamina cribrosa strains can occur at all levels of mean intraocular pressure. SUMMARY: Laminar morphology is ever changing in health and disease, and recent studies have identified several promising morphological changes that are indicative of glaucoma susceptibility, onset, and progression.

Indexed as

GlaucomaHumansIntraocular PressureNerve FibersOptic DiskOptic Nerve DiseasesRetinal Ganglion CellsTomography, Optical Coherence

Identifiers

PMID27898470
PMCPMC5480216
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