Coincidence you contacted me today, as this same day I detected new open angle glaucoma in a 28 year lady in for regular eye exam. She has 20/20 vision without glasses and has an exam once every 5 years. Without my RAPDx this glaucoma could have easily slipped by and she would suffer 5 more years of retinal nerve damage.
The RAPDx/EyeKinetix is truly amazing technology. It has saved the sight of numerous patients and build my glaucoma practice along the way.
Thank you to Konan for transforming eye disease detection and patient care!
Glen R. Owen, OD, FAAO
Edmonds Eyecare Associates, WA
The RAPDx score provides a highly sensitive and specific assessment of the RAPD as tested by the swinging flashlight method. It is easily used by ancillary personnel as part of the screening of patients and is a powerful tool for clinicians needing to identify, confirm and quantify Relative Afferent Pupillary Defects.
Nicholas J. Volpe, MD
Nicholas J. Volpe, MD
I have diagnosed over a dozen patients with low-tension glaucoma with RAPDx. These patients had a relative afferent pupillary defect as their initial abnormal finding and without the benefit of automated objective pupillography, my index-of-suspicion for ocular disease would have been lower and I might have missed the diagnosis.
Craig Thomas, OD
First Eye Care Southwest Dallas, Tx
RAPDx is beneficial in my practice to easily and precisely quantify afferent pupillary abnormalities as well as accurate and quantitative documentation of follow-up progress in patients with diseases of the anterior visual pathways. In addition, RAPDx helps me detect subtle RAPDs in the early diagnosis of diseases, such as glaucoma, and to document the absence of an RAPD in non-organic, unilateral, vision loss.
Swaraj Bose, MD
Neuro-Ophthalmology & Orbit
The EyeKinetix provides peace of mind that our patient’s pupillary reflexes are being evaluated accurately and objectively. I have found the unit to be so much faster than its predecessor, RAPDx, and much more user/operator friendly. With the speed of EyeKinetix we do not have a bottle neck at our testing stations – it allows us to maintain the preliminary testing production flow.
This instrument is going to help us save someone’s life, or quality of life, by picking up subtle APD producing pathology—that we probably were going to miss. I believe in the unit so much that I have ordered 2 of them for our office.
Mario Gutierrez, OD, FAAO
Vision Source Alamo Hts & MacAurthur Park, Tx
The biggest problem with RAPD testing is that eyecare providers don’t do it … I estimate that pupillary testing is documented only about 10% of the time. It used to be gonioscopy took the prize for being done seldom and badly …”
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