Nocturnal blood pressure and intraocular pressure measurement in glaucoma patients and healthy controls

✍ Scribed by Piroska Follmann; Csilla Palotás; Ildikó Süveges; Adrienne Petrovits

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 430 KB
• Volume: 20
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0165-5701
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00212951

✦ Synopsis

Daytime and nocturnal intraocular pressure (IOP) values and systemic blood pressure (BP) values were compared in 60 non-glaucomatous controls, 54 glaucoma patients with normal visual field, and 46 glaucoma patients with visual field loss. The daytime IOP was measured with a Goldmann applanation tonometer and the nocturnal IOP with a Bio-Rad-Tono-Pen 2. The BP was measured with either a mercury manometer or with a Meditech ABPM-02 Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitor, which took BP readings at 60 minute intervals. A tendency towards increasing IOP and decreasing BP was detected in the non-glaucomatous controls, within normal limits, and pathological changes of IOP and BP were observed with a significantly high occurrence (5% > P > 2%; Pearson's chi 2-test) in the glaucoma group with visual field loss.