A study of the relation between intraocular pressure and aqueous humor flow in the pigment dispersion syndrome.
Forty subjects with pigment dispersion syndrome with and without intraocular pressure (IOP) elevation were compared with 40 age-matched controls. Intraocular pressure, resistance to outflow, and the rate of flow of aqueous humor were compared. Eyes with higher IOP and higher resistance to outflow were found to have a normal rate of aqueous flow. The results are interpreted as demonstrating that moderate and chronic elevation of IOP in the adult human eye does not induce a chronic compensatory reduction of aqueous humor flow.
Brown
J D
JD
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Brubaker
R F
RF
D000328:Adult; D001082:Aqueous Humor / Q000378:metabolism*; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000378:metabolism / Q000503:physiopathology*; D015590:Fluorophotometry; D006801:Humans; D007429:Intraocular Pressure; D008875:Middle Aged; D010860:Pigments, Biological / Q000378:metabolism*; D013577:Syndrome; D014065:Tonometry, Ocular
D010860:Pigments, Biological