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This study investigated the sensitivities and specificities of different diagnostic criteria based on the OCT classification reports for detection of glaucoma.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>340 eyes of 137 patients with glaucoma and 87 healthy individuals, all with axial length \u226426mm, had global and sectoral BMO-MRW and RNFLT measured with Spectralis OCT (Heidelberg Engineering). Six diagnostic criteria were examined: global measurement below the fifth or the first percentile; \u22651 sector measurement below the fifth or the first percentile; superotemporal and\/or inferotemporal measurement below the fifth or the first percentile. The sensitivities and specificities of BMO-MRW\/RNFLT assessment for detection of glaucoma (eyes with visual field (VF) defects) were compared.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Among the six criteria examined, superotemporal and\/or inferotemporal measurement below the fifth percentile showed the highest sensitivities and specificities for glaucoma detection. Abnormal superotemporal and\/or inferotemporal RNFLT attained a higher sensitivity than abnormal superotemporal and\/or inferotemporal BMO-MRW to detect mild glaucoma (mean VF MD: \u22123.32\u00b11.59\u2009dB) (97.9% and 88.4%, respectively, p=0.006), and glaucoma (mean VF MD: \u22129.36\u00b18.31\u2009dB) (98.4% and 93.6%, respectively, p=0.006), at the same specificity (96.1%).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>Superotemporal and\/or inferotemporal RNFLT\/MRW below the fifth percentile yield the best diagnostic performance for glaucoma detection with RNFLT attains higher sensitivities than MRW at the same specificity in eyes without high myopia.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1136\/bjophthalmol-2018-313581","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,5,30]],"date-time":"2019-05-30T21:15:23Z","timestamp":1559250923000},"page":"270-275","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/crossmarkpolicy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":27,"title":["Diagnostic criteria for detection of retinal nerve fibre layer thickness and neuroretinal rim width abnormalities in glaucoma"],"prefix":"10.1136","volume":"104","author":[{"given":"Feihui","family":"Zheng","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Marco","family":"Yu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4862-777X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Christopher Kai-Shun","family":"Leung","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"239","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,5,30]]},"reference":[{"key":"2020050713055310000_104.2.270.1","unstructured":"Weinreb RN , Garway-Heath DF , Leung C , et al . 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