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Age Related Changes in Ocular Rigidity

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Correlations of ocular rigidity with other parameters affecting ocular physiology have been thoroughly studied in experimental, post mortem and in vivo studies. Age is a parameter affecting all ocular structures through various pathways, and as a consequence it has direct effects on ocular biomechanics. This effect was measurable in studies evaluating rigidity with differential tonometry since more than a century ago, and has been confirmed more recently in vivo with manometrical studies. Still, there have been some results not agreeing with this hypothesis, even though it is generally accepted and supported in theory. Overall, age is considered to be one of the parameters that affect ocular rigidity. Hence, this effect is independently contributing in the evolution of ocular changes and pathology that develop with increasing age.

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  1. Laboratory of Vision and Optics and Department of Ophthalmology, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece

    George Kontadakis

  2. Whipps Cross University Hospital, London, UK

    George Kontadakis

  3. Department of Ophthalmology, University of Lausanne, Jules-Gonin Eye Hospital, Fondation Asile des Aveugles, Lausanne, Switzerland

    George Kymionis

  4. Department of Ophthalmology, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    George Kymionis

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  1. Department of Ophthalmology, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

    Ioannis Pallikaris

  2. Department of Ophthalmology, University of Crete, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

    Miltiadis K. Tsilimbaris

  3. 2nd Ophthalmology Department, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Anna I. Dastiridou

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Kontadakis, G., Kymionis, G. (2021). Age Related Changes in Ocular Rigidity. In: Pallikaris, I., Tsilimbaris, M.K., Dastiridou, A.I. (eds) Ocular Rigidity, Biomechanics and Hydrodynamics of the Eye. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64422-2_14

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