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Stefano Miglior, MD

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The recent article by Hong et al¹ describes the relevance of long-term fluctuations in intraocular pressure (IOP) on glaucoma progression, but their findings need further clarification.

The study provides no information about the clinical history of the 408 patients during the 9 years of follow-up but it would be surprising if none of them showed any progressive visual field (VF) change using standard clinical criteria. If such a change did occur, more intense IOP-lowering therapy would probably have been started, thus inducing a greater fluctuation. Unfortunately, nothing is said as to whether the analysis included IOP measurements made after the VF progression observed at the time of clinical follow-up. This was done in AGIS,² which found that long-term IOP fluctuations were a risk factor for progression, but not in the EMGT³ or EGPS⁴ (which did not confirm the risk), and retrospective reevaluation by means of a new . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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