An attempt was made to study the associations between age, intraocular pressure, and systolic blood pressure. The eyes of 90 non-glaucomatous, ocular normotensive patients and of 142 ocular hypertensive patients were examined. A third group was formed from these two by stratification, to mirror the intraocular pressure distribution in the general population. In all three groups systolic blood p...

background: in many clinical situations, knowledge of central venous pressure (cvp) is important.  measurement of cvp is not always possible.   objective: to determine if intraocular pressure (iop) can be used as an estimate for cvp.   methods: iop and cvp were measured concurrently in 30 candidates of coronary artery bypass graft surgery.  those with carotid artery or jugular venous diseases a...

LETTERS Spontaneous venous pulsations should be monitored during glaucoma therapy It is well established that lowering intraocular pressure slows or halts progression of glau-coma. None the less, changes in intracranial pressure also affect the pressure gradient across the lamina cribrosa. Normal intraocu-lar pressures combined with low intracranial pressures produce the same pressure different...

The influence of common carotid occlusion on intraocular pressure was studied in rabbits by perfusion and tonographic techniques. Bilateral common carotid occlusion caused a greater ocular volume change than homolateral occlusion. If homolateral occlusion was followed by contralateral occlusion, there was consistently an additional fall in intraocular pressure. The initial fall in intraocular p...