Home Self-Tonometry Trials compared with Clinic Tonometry in Patients with Glaucoma [Game Changer!]
MyEYES continually strives to update our patients on the latest information regarding Glaucoma. This article about self-tonometry could be a potential game changer for the Eye Industry, especially the Glaucoma Specialists, in how they view their patients’ IOP fluctuations and the importance of capturing that vital data 24/7. Thus, it could influence their treatment protocols […]
MyEYES continually strives to update our patients on the latest information regarding Glaucoma. This article about self-tonometry could be a potential game changer for the Eye Industry, especially the Glaucoma Specialists, in how they view their patients’ IOP fluctuations and the importance of capturing that vital data 24/7. Thus, it could influence their treatment protocols and the patients’ treatment paths to help preserve as much of their site as possible. – C S Epperson, MyEYES.
Conclusion from the article:
Self-tonometry provides IOP data that supplements in-clinic tonometry and would not be detectable over daytime in-clinic diurnal curves. A subset of patients in whom their glaucoma clinician ordered home self-tonometry because of suspicion of occult IOP elevation demonstrated reproducible IOP elevation outside of the clinic setting. Such patients tended to be younger and male and had not undergone previous
filtering surgery. Ophthalmology Glaucoma 2021;4:569-580 ª 2021 by the American Academy of Ophthalmology
This original article was available online at AAO April 9, 2021
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