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Pachymetry essential in all glaucoma patients, clinician says

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LAS VEGAS — Pachymetry should be performed on all patients with glaucoma and those with suspected glaucoma, according to one physician.

This information “should be placed in the patient’s chart where it is easily referenced,” Steven T. Simmons, MD, said at the First Annual Ocular Surgery News Symposium — Glaucoma: Improving Your Odds.

Dr. Simmons referenced the Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study (OHTS), where it was found that central corneal thickness became a factor in the development of glaucoma. He stated that Goldmann tonometry is not as effective as pachymetry, and that tonometry showed several “errors” in many patients in the OHTS.