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Better methods of measurement needed to ‘make sense of IOP’

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LAS VEGAS — If physicians are to make sense of IOP, said Louis B. Cantor, MD, “we need better, direct methods of measurement.”

Dr. Cantor spoke on the relationships between tonometry and corneal thickness here at the Ocular Surgery News Symposium, Glaucoma: Improving Your Odds, where he also served as a course director.

Dr. Cantor said that to get an accurate conception of IOP, corneal thickness testing should be performed on all glaucoma patients. When a target pressure is set, the treatment should help the patient achieve the target pressure and “not below that,” he said.

Dr. Cantor added that the lower the IOP, the better the prognosis for the patient.