Purpose: To evaluate the central corneal thickness in ocular hypertensive patients (OHT).
Methods: We defined OHT those patients with a mean intraocular pressure(IOP) checked by daily pressure curve over 21mmhg, (Goldmann tonometry), with normal visual field performed by octopus (programm gix), without optic nerve head (ONH) damage evaluated by binocular slit lamp fundus examination. The 3 central mm corneal thickness was meassured by ultrasound pachymetry (alcon). We studied 100 patients between 15 and 50 years of age. Best correct visual acuity was 20/20 and refractive error +3.00d to -3.00d. We performed 5 central corneal meassured in each patient.
Results: The mean IOP was 23.2mmhg. the mean ultrasound pachymetry was 607.3 um (range 570 to 642 um).
Conclusion: All of the patients studied showed pachymetry over 570 um and they do not showed changes during their mean follow up of 3 years, related to Glaucoma damage. we suggest that this high pachymetries values correlates with the high iop in this patients