Clinical Trial: Pituitary Gland Enlargement Was First Diagnosed by Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT)

Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Observational




Official Title: Pituitary Gland Enlargement Was First Diagnosed by OCT Before There Were Any Changes at All in the Computerized and Automated Eighty Degrees Peripheral Visual Fields

Brief Summary: OCT is now an established way to measure the thickness of the Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer (RNFL) in the retina of the eye. The thickness of the RNFL is always a reflection of the number of the RNFs in any particular area of the retina. Each single RNF runs a long course starting from the cell body which is the retinal ganglion cell in the retina and ends in the thalamus of the brain where it relays visual information to other nerve cell in the thalamus. Along this long course RNFs are in close anatomical relationship with the pituitary gland crossing just above this gland about midway along their course. Hence enlargement of this gland can interfere with the RNFs.