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Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol
; 227(1): 36-8, 1989.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-2920906
RESUMO
The effect of therapeutic ultrasound was evaluated in 17 patients with therapy-resistant glaucoma by comparing average intraocular pressure (IOP) curves measured before and 3-4 months after insonification. The insonification regimen was standardized; the medication was identical during both pressure curve measurements. The average IOP decrease was 44% +/- 24 SD (range, 73% decrease to 6% increase). In 82% of the patients the IOP decrease was more than 34%. There was no correlation between the percentage of IOP decrease and the average IOP before insonification (correlation coefficient, 0.21; P = 0.41).