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. 1975 Jan;14(1):49-52.

Water drinking and outflow facility

  • PMID: 1110138

Water drinking and outflow facility

P C Kronfeld. Invest Ophthalmol. 1975 Jan.

Abstract

In a series of patients with ocular hypertension, the effect of water drinking upon pressure and outflow facility was determined by impression (Schiotz) tonometry and tonography. The statistical facility-depressing effect of water drinking revealed by numerous earlier studies was confirmed, but found to be too small to be readily demonstrable in the individual eye. The water-drinking test in patients with primary ocular hypertension presents a situation in which tonography adds little to the information provided by tonometry.

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