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Forty-five patients with poorly controlled chronic open angle glaucoma underwent pneumotonography immediately prior to argon laser trabeculoplasty. The coefficient of facility of outflow (c-value) was calculated from the pneumotonography and correlated with the intraocular pressure rise one hour after the argon laser trabeculoplasty. It appeared that there was a strong relationship between a low c-value indicating a poor outflow facility and a large intraocular pressure rise following argon laser trabeculoplasty. The implications of being able to predict the intraocular pressure rise after argon laser trabeculoplasty are discussed.
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Presented at the Annual Congress of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom, April 1987.
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Keightley, S., Khaw, P. & Elkington, A. The prediction of intraocular pressure rise following argon laser trabeculoplasty. Eye 1, 577–580 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1038/eye.1987.88
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