Ocular Diseases and Hypertension

Ocular hypertension and posture.

Thirty-seven patients with ocular hypertension (OH) and 29 age matched controls were studied. Intraocular pressure (IOP) measurements were made in the sitting position and, immediately after changing posture, in the lying position. Sixty-three (85%) of the OH eyes and all the control eyes showed either stable IOP readings on changing posture of small elevations up to 3 mmHg. Eleven (15%) of the...

Glaucoma and Ocular Hypertension

Investigating Ocular Diseases in Patients with Psoriasis

Background and purpose: Psoriasis is an inflammatory disease with skin and joint manifestations. This disease can be associated with ocular complications and reduce vision and quality of life. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and type of ocular involvement in patients with psoriasis to prevent unwanted complications by identifying the disease at the right time. Materials a...

Delaying treatment of ocular hypertension: the ocular hypertension treatment study.

OBJECTIVE To compare the safety and efficacy of earlier vs later treatment in preventing primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) in individuals with ocular hypertension. METHODS One thousand six hundred thirty-six individuals with intraocular pressure (IOP) from 24 to 32 mm Hg in 1 eye and 21 to 32 mm Hg in the fellow eye were randomized to observation or to topical ocular hypotensive medication. ...

Ocular Hypertension and Population Surveys

Also of interest is the observation of Suda and Abe (I964) that the glaucoma-like scotomata produced by bulbar compression appear at lower intraocular pressures than in normal subjects. These observations do much to explain why simple tonometry and related tests have failed to provide an accurate index of the incidence of clinical glaucoma. To summarize the present position, it has been establi...