IOP and glaucoma damage: The essential role of optic nerve head and retinal mechanosensors

I Pitha, L Du, TD Nguyen, H Quigley - Progress in retinal and eye research, 2024 - Elsevier
There are many unanswered questions on the relation of intraocular pressure to glaucoma
development and progression. IOP itself cannot be distilled to a single, unifying value …

[HTML][HTML] In vivo corneal elastography: A topical review of challenges and opportunities

G Lan, MD Twa, C Song, JP Feng, Y Huang… - Computational and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Clinical measurement of corneal biomechanics can aid in the early diagnosis, progression
tracking, and treatment evaluation of ocular diseases. Over the past two decades …

The strain response to intraocular pressure decrease in the lamina cribrosa of patients with glaucoma

CA Czerpak, MS Kashaf, BK Zimmerman… - Ophthalmology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Objective To measure biomechanical strains in the lamina cribrosa (LC) of living human
eyes with intraocular pressure (IOP) lowering. Design Cohort study. Participants Patients …

In vivo characterization of the deformation of the human optic nerve head using optical coherence tomography and digital volume correlation

DE Midgett, HA Quigley, TD Nguyen - Acta biomaterialia, 2019 - Elsevier
We developed a method to measure the 3-dimensional (3D) strain field in the optic nerve
head (ONH) in vivo between two intraocular pressures (IOP). Radial optical coherence …

Differing associations between optic nerve head strains and visual field loss in patients with normal-and high-tension glaucoma

T Chuangsuwanich, TA Tun, FA Braeu, X Wang… - Ophthalmology, 2023 - Elsevier
Purpose To study the associations between optic nerve head (ONH) strains under
intraocular pressure (IOP) elevation with retinal sensitivity in patients with glaucoma. Design …

[HTML][HTML] The effects of glaucoma on the pressure-induced strain response of the human lamina cribrosa

D Midgett, B Liu, YTT Ling, JL Jefferys… - … & visual science, 2020 - jov.arvojournals.org
Purpose: To measure the ex vivo pressure-induced strain response of the human optic
nerve head and analyze for variations with glaucoma diagnosis and optic nerve axon …

The inflation response of the human lamina cribrosa and sclera: Analysis of deformation and interaction

DE Midgett, JL Jefferys, HA Quigley, TD Nguyen - Acta Biomaterialia, 2020 - Elsevier
This study investigated the inflation response of the lamina cribrosa (LC) and adjacent
peripapillary sclera (PPS) in post-mortem human eyes with no history of glaucoma. The …

The role of lamina cribrosa tissue stiffness and fibrosis as fundamental biomechanical drivers of pathological glaucoma cupping

AA Hopkins, R Murphy, M Irnaten… - … of Physiology-Cell …, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
The primary biomechanical driver of pathological glaucomatous cupping remains unknown.
Finite element modeling indicates that stress and strain play key roles. In this article …

[HTML][HTML] Variation of peripapillary scleral shape with age

TA Tun, X Wang, M Baskaran… - … & Visual Science, 2019 - jov.arvojournals.org
Purpose: To define the shape of the anterior surface of the peripapillary sclera (PPS) and
evaluate its relationship with age and ocular determinants in a population-based Chinese …

Evidence of an Annexin A4 mediated plasma membrane repair response to biomechanical strain associated with glaucoma pathogenesis

N Vicic, X Guo, D Chan, JG Flanagan… - Journal of cellular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Glaucoma is a common neurodegenerative blinding disease that is closely associated with
chronic biomechanical strain at the optic nerve head (ONH). Yet, the cellular injury and …