Increased Corneal Thickness in Patients With Ocular Hypertension

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Abstract
OCULAR hypertension (OHT) is a diagnosis based primarily on the results obtained from the clinical measurement of intraocular pressure (IOP). The diagnosis of OHT is made when a patient has consistently elevated IOP, open angles by gonioscopy, and no clinical signs of optic nerve damage, such as pathologic cupping, disc asymmetry, or visual field changes associated with the diagnosis of glaucoma. Because the major diagnostic criterion for OHT is based primarily on the clinical measurement of IOP, any variable that can affect the measurement of IOP could lead to an errant diagnosis of OHT.