TONOMETRIC VALUES OF INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE, USING THE GOLDMANN TONOMETER, TONOPEN AND DIATON TRANSPALPEBRAL TONOMETER IN KERATOCONUS
AUTHORS: Daher, Felipe T.1; Paranhos, Augusto1 |
INSTITUTIONS: 1. Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, Paulista School of Medicine, São Paulo Hospital, Federal University of São Paulo , São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. |
Purpose: To evaluate agreement among Goldmann, Tonopen and Diaton transpalpebral tonometers.
Conclusions: The measures of Diaton transpalpebral tonometer shows satisfactory reproducibility and their concordance with the Goldmann, mainly in the patients with karatoconus on which the pressure values were higher than the Goldmann, may trend to a measure value closer to the real intraocular pressure, as Goldmann tonometer underestimates the intraocular pressures on patients with keratoconus.