Correlation between central corneal thickness and intraocular pressure peak and fluctuation during the water drinking test in glaucoma patients

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the correlation between central corneal thickness and outflow facility assessed by intraocular pressure peak and fluctuation during the water drinking test. METHODS: Fifty-five newly diagnosed primary open-angle glaucoma patients submitted to central corneal thickness measurements and water drinking test were enrolled in this retrospective study.;. Patients were divided into three groups according to their central corneal thickness. Pearson's Correlation test was performed in the groups with lower and higher pachymetric values. RESULTS: The mean age was 65,65 ± 28,28 years; 63,63 percent were female and 52,72 percent were caucasian. The mean central corneal thickness was 544,32 ± 36,86 µm, and the mean baseline intraocular pressure was 23,36 ± 6,26 mmHg. During the water drinking test, the mean intraocular pressure peak and mean intraocular pressure fluctuation were 30,43 ± 8,13 mmHg and 31,46 ± 18,46 percent, respectively. No relevant correlation was detected between the central corneal thickness and the intraocular pressure peak (r² = 0,021) or between the central corneal thickness and the intraocular pressure fluctuation (r² = 0,011). Group 1 presented a mean central corneal thickness of 505,81 ± 13,86 µm, and Group 3 was 583,55 ± 27,87 µm (p = 0,001). The mean intraocular pressure peak was 31,05 ± 9,05 mmHg and 27,83 ± 4,92 mmHg in Group 1 and in Group 3, respectively (p = 0,193). The difference of intraocular pressure fluctuation was not statistically significant between Group 1 (mean 28,47±16,25 percent) and Group3 (mean 33,27 ± 21,27 percent) (p = 0,43). CONCLUSION: In our case series, no correlation was found between central corneal thickness and water drinkingtest results.

Incisões relaxantes limbares ou incisões no meridiano mais curvo associadas a facoemulsificação com implante de lente intra-ocular multifocal: relato de três casos / Limbal relaxing incision or the more curved meridian incision associated to phacoemulsification with multifocal intraocular lens implant: three case reports

O implante de lentes intra-oculares (LIOs) multifocais é um grande avanço na reabilitação de pacientes permitindo boa acuidade visual sem correção óptica para longe e perto. Contudo pacientes com alguns graus de astigmatismo corneano tem indicação limitada. Este artigo relata três pacientes que foram submetidas a facoemulsificação com implante de lentes intra-oculares multifocais (AcrySof® Restor®, Alcon Labs) após incisão relaxante limbar (IRL) no olho dominante e incisão no eixo mais curvo da topografia no olho contralateral. Não foi encontrado nenhuma análise relacionada a dominância ocular e relaxante limbar na literatura. Acredita-se que essa associação pode ampliar as indicações de implante das lentes intra-oculares multifocais em pacientes com astigmatismo corneano significativo, devendo-se confirmar esta possibilidade por meio de futuros estudos.

The use of multifocal intraocular lenses (IOLs) is a great advance in the treatment of patients with cataract allowing near and distance uncorrected visual acuity recovery. However patients with some degrees of corneal astigmatism have some limitations. We present 3 cases that were indicated for phacoemulsitfication and multifocal intraocular lens implant (AcrySof® Restor®, Alcon Labs) after limbal relaxing incision (LRI) in the dominant eye and axis topographic incision in the fellow eye. There was no similar case report in the literature. It is believed that this association can extend the indications for multifocal intraocular lens implants in patients with significant corneal astigmatism and this possibility should be confirmed by future studies.