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Eye to Eye Ophthalmology: Is Goldmann Applanation Tonometry still the 'gold standard' method of measuring intraocular pressure?

Eye to Eye: An Ophthalmology Podcast from the Royal College of Ophthalmologists

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The Importance of Ton of Pen in Clinical Research

There's much more to glaucoma than the salon and hopefully with future research and progress we'll be able to make use those other findings including things like polygenic risk squaring. IOP is an important risk factor but it's not the most important factor in terms of diagnosis or looking at progression. The eye care has this sort of taken over and this for the kind of indication that ton of pen was used as a diagnostic tool. There are measuring the visual field visual function measuring the optic nerve as well is perhaps more more important because all the measurements we take in glaucomA they're subject to noise.

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