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Abstract #76280 Published in IGR 19-3
Twenty-four hour intraocular pressure measurements and home tonometry
Meier-Gibbons F; Berlin MS; Töteberg-Harms MCurrent Opinions in Ophthalmology 2018; 29: 111-115
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: IOP is the only treatable risk factor contributing to glaucoma and most management and treatment of glaucoma is based on IOP. However, current IOP measurements are limited to office hours and control of glaucoma in many patients would benefit from the ability to monitor IOP diurnally so as not to miss abnormal pressures, which occur outside of office hours Consequently, to improve patient care, the ability to enable accurate and minimally disruptive diurnal IOP monitoring would improve caring for these patients. RECENT FINDINGS: The studies we selected for this review can be divided into three categories: self-/home-tonometry, continuous invasive intraocular pressure measurements, and continuous noninvasive ocular measurements. SUMMARY: The desire to obtain better insight in our patients' true diurnal IOP has led to the development of home-tonometers, in addition to extraocular and intraocular continuous pressure measurement devices. All of the devices have respective advantages and disadvantages, but none to date completely fulfills the goal of providing a true diurnal IOP profile.Video abstracthttp://links.lww.com/COOP/A27.
Eye Center Rapperswil, Merkurstrasse 50, Rapperswil, Switzerland.
Full articleClassification:
6.1.2 Fluctuation, circadian rhythms (Part of: 6 Clinical examination methods > 6.1 Intraocular pressure measurement; factors affecting IOP)
