A study was conducted by Dr Akiyama & associates from the Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka in Japan to evaluate the treatment effect of topical unoprostone isopropyl (unoprostone) (in the form of eye drops) on patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP). This medication is currently used in glaucoma.
Forty patients with typical forms of RP were included in the study, out of which 17 patients were treated with 0.12% topical unoprostone twice daily in a randomly selected eye. The efficacy of the treatment was monitored by visual acuity and visual field testing using the Humphrey Field Analyzer (HFA). In addition, 12 RP patients who were included this study and 12 normal subjects were evaluated in terms of their macular blood flow of both eyes after instillation of unoprostone using the laser speckle method.
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