Device and methods for monitoring a visual field progression of a user

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for determining the likelihood of being at or beyond a certain rate and/or risk of visual field progression (VFP) of a user, comprising the following steps: an installing step (S) comprising placing or implanting a continuous-wear sensor on or in an eye of a user; a measuring step (S) comprising measuring ocular biomechanical properties (OBP) through the continuous-wear sensor placed on or implanted in the eye, with said measurement comprising repeated data capture at regular time intervals; a recording step (S) comprising recording the user's ocular biomechanical properties in the form of at least one OBP time series plot in a recorder; a processing step (S) wherein at least one of a plurality of OBP parameters are extracted from the at least one recorded OBP time series plot; a calculation step (S) wherein the at least one of a plurality of OBP parameters are associated to VFP; a determining step (S) wherein one determines whether the visual field progression is at or beyond a certain VFP threshold and/or the probability that the said visual field progression is comprised within a specific range; a predicting step (S) wherein based on the determined VFP, one predicts the probability of a patient to develop a glaucoma, and a judging step (S) for judging of a specific medical treatment based on the above prediction result.