RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Postural response of intraocular pressure in chronic open-angle glaucoma following trabeculectomy.
JF British Journal of Ophthalmology
JO Br J Ophthalmol
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd.
SP 494
OP 496
DO 10.1136/bjo.71.7.494
VO 71
IS 7
A1 J Parsley
A1 R G Powell
A1 S J Keightley
A1 A R Elkington
YR 1987
UL http://bjo.bmj.com/content/71/7/494.abstract
AB Forty-six eyes with chronic open-angle glaucoma (COAG) and 24 eyes which had previously undergone trabeculectomy for COAG were studied and the postural response of the intraocular pressure compared with that of 70 normal eyes. In all three groups the greatest rise in intraocular pressure (IOP) occurred when the subject changed from the sitting to the lying position. In the control group this was never more than 2 mmHg in any subject. The rise was greater than 2 mmHg in 93% of the patients suffering from COAG who were treated medically and in 100% of the eyes of those on which trabeculectomy had been performed. The well recognised abnormal postural response of intraocular pressure in COAG appears both to be retained and to be unaffected in those eyes which have undergone trabeculectomy.