[A comparative analysis of hemodynamic parameters within the evaluation of the glaucomatous process in patients with...

One hundred and eighty (180) persons (363 eyes), mean age 63.7 +/- 5.2, mean follow-up--6.1 +/- 1.2, were investigated. Control group 1 comprised 46 patients (92 eyes) with emmetropia and different-degree myopia; control group 2 had 74 persons (148 eyes) with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG). The main group had 60 patients (119 eyes) with POAG combined with myopia. The ocular hemodynamics parameters were found to reliably differ, in patients with myopia, without glaucoma and with the anterior-posterior eye axis of 25 mm, from the similar parameters in persons with emmetropia. The process aggravates in myopic patients with glaucoma due to reliably worsened ocular hemodynamics parameters and due to a higher intraocular pressure without any reliably changing systemic hemodynamics. The measuring of ophthalmoplethysmography parameters could be handy in examining the POAG patients with myopia in order to detect if glaucoma is progressing or not.