Effect of recipient corneal pathology on Pascal tonometer and Goldmann tonometer readings in eyes after penetrating keratoplasty.

Purpose: To assess the influence of recipient corneal pathology on the performance of the Pascal dynamic contour tonometer (PDCT) (Swiss Microtechnology AG) by comparing it to Goldmann applanation tonometry (GAT) in post-penetrating keratoplasty (PKP) eyes.

Methods: Intraocular pressure (IOP) was measured in 40 post-PKP eyes of 40 patients using PDCT and GAT. The study patients were divided into two groups.

Assessment of the pascal dynamic contour tonometer in measuring intraocular pressure in keratoconic eyes.

Purpose: To assess the performance of the Pascal dynamic contour tonometer (PDCT) (Swiss Microtechnology AG) by comparing it to Goldmann applanation tonometry (GAT) and noncontact air tonometry (NCT) in keratoconic eyes.

Methods: Intraocular pressure (IOP) was measured in both eyes of 32 patients with keratoconus using PDCT, GAT, and NCT. IOP measurements were also obtained with all 3 instruments in 46 patients with healthy eyes in the same age range, which served as controls.

Assessment of the Pascal dynamic contour tonometer in monitoring intraocular pressure in unoperated eyes and eyes after LASIK.

Purpose: To assess the performance of the Pascal dynamic contour tonometer (PDCT) (Swiss Microtechnology AG) by comparing it to Goldmann applanation tonometry (GAT) and noncontact air tonometry (NCT) before and after laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK).

Setting: Vlemma Eye Institute, Athens, Greece.

Methods: Intraocular pressure was measured in 118 eyes before and 1 and 4 weeks after LASIK using GAT, NCT, and the PDCT, which allows direct, digital, transcorneal measurement of intraocular pressure.

Efficacy of brimonidine 0.2% in controlling acute postoperative intraocular pressure elevation after phacoemulsification.

Purpose: To determine the efficacy of brimonidine tartrate 0.2% drops given 2 times a day in reducing intraocular pressure (IOP) spikes during the first 24 hours after phacoemulsification cataract surgery.

Setting: Department of Ophthalmology, General Hospital of Patras Agios Andreas, Patras, Greece.

Autorefractometry after laser in situ keratomileusis.

Purpose: To correlate cycloplegic subjective refraction with cycloplegic autorefractometry in eyes that have had laser in situ keratomileusis (LASIK).

Setting: Vlemma Eye Institute, Athens, Greece.

Methods: Subjective refraction and autorefractometry under cycloplegia were performed in 73 eyes of 46 patients 1, 6, and 12 months after LASIK to correct myopia or myopic astigmatism.