Purpose: To address the unmet need of continuous IOP monitoring, a Pressure-Measuring Contact Lens (PMCL) was developed to measure IOP in millimeters of mercury (mmHg) continuously over 24 hours. The present study assessed the reliability of the novel PMCL.
Methods: In this prospective open-label clinical study, healthy and open-angle glaucoma (OAG) subjects were fitted with the PMCL, and pneumatonometry was performed on study eyes (in absence of the PMCL) and on fellow eyes before, during, and after provocative tests.
Purpose: To evaluate the use of a 24-hr ocular dimensional profile recorded with a contact lens sensor (CLS) combined with a single tonometric intraocular pressure (IOP) reading to indicate the potential for exceeding the diagnostic threshold for normal tension glaucoma (NTG) in Japanese patients.
Methods: Intraocular pressure (IOP) of untreated Japanese NTG patients was measured with tonometry every 3 hr from 9:00 to 24:00. The subsequent day a 24-hr CLS (SENSIMED Triggerfish, Sensimed AG, Lausanne, Switzerland) profile was recorded on the same eye.
Background/aims: This study assessed the feasibility of a novel contact lens device for intraocular pressure (IOP) and ocular pulse amplitude (OPA) continuous measurements over 24 hours.
Methods: This prospective, open-label, single-centre, non-randomised study included glaucoma and healthy subjects. IOP and OPA values acquired by the pressure-measuring contact lens (PMCL) device in one patient's eye at the beginning of the measurement were compared with tonometry values (Goldman applanation tonometry (GAT) and dynamic contour tonometry (DCT)) in the same eye just before PMCL placement.
Purpose: To test the hypothesis that a 24-hour recording of intraocular pressure (IOP)-related measurements derived from a contact lens sensor (CLS) correlates to the rate of visual field progression in treated glaucomatous eyes.
Design: Prospective, cross-sectional study.
Participants: Forty treated glaucomatous patients with 8 or more 24-2 visual field tests.
Purpose: To prospectively determine if changes in intrarenal oxygenation during acute unilateral ureteral obstruction can be depicted with blood oxygen level-dependent (BOLD) magnetic resonance (MR) imaging.
Materials And Methods: The study was approved by the local ethics committee, and written informed consent was obtained from all patients. BOLD MR imaging was performed in 10 male patients (mean age, 45 years +/- 17 [standard deviation]; range, 20-73 years) with a distal unilateral ureteral calculus and in 10 healthy age-matched male volunteers to estimate R2*, which is inversely related to tissue Po(2).