METHOD OF ESTIMATING STAGE OF INITIAL OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA PROGRESSING Russian patent published in 2013 - IPC A61B3/10 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to medicine, in particular to ophthalmology, and can be used for estimation of stage of initial open angle glaucoma progressing. For an individual patient with diagnosed initial open angle glaucoma of stage S₀, already stated by clinical methods, the following examination is performed: thermal imaging measurement of temperature of anterior part of eye with determination of mean temperature of joined zone of cornea and limb T₀, then, as glaucoma process progresses mean temperature of the said zone T_eye is re-measured for the same patient and stage of initial open angle glaucoma- S(T_eye) is estimated by formula where C₁=78. To eliminate errors measurements of mean temperature of cornea and sclera zone are performed at the end of act of winking at the moment prior to next closing of eyelid, when temperature of cornea stabilises.

EFFECT: method makes it possible to estimate stage of initial open angle glaucoma, as well as increase accuracy of stage determination due to provision of possibility of detecting intermediate stages in transition from current stage of open angle glaucoma to the following one.

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