Clinical Relevance: Change in intraocular pressure during acute ocular compression is related to aqueous humour dynamics. Monitoring intraocular pressure (IOP) change throughout ocular compression has potential to evaluate aqueous outflow facilities.

Background: Recent studies have monitored lamina cribrosa deformation using optical coherence tomography during ocular compression. IOP was measured only once immediately after ocular compression. This study aimed to evaluate IOP changes during and after ocular compression and compare the differences between low and high myopia.

Methods: Two groups of young, healthy adults were age-matched and underwent ocular compression. IOP was measured at baseline and monitored during a 2-min ocular compression followed by a 10-min recovery phase. Rebound tonometry was used and applied at 30-s intervals.

Results: Thirty low and 30 high myopes (60 right eyes) were included in the study. They had similar baseline IOP at 14.9 mmHg. IOP was elevated to 21.7 ± 3.8 mmHg and 22.3 ± 4.2 mmHg for the low and high myopic group, respectively ( = 0.877). Low myopes had faster IOP decay during ocular compression at -3.24 mmHg/min than high myopes at -2.58 mmHg/min ( = 0.0528). The IOP dropped below the baseline level after the release of the compressive force. Low myopes had IOP that returned to baseline levels faster (at 360 s) than high myopes (at 510 s).

Conclusion: Measuring IOP once immediately after ocular compression could under-estimate the effect of IOP elevation during ocular compression. Further studies are required regarding IOP changes from ocular compression in aqueous humour dynamics.

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