Abstract:BACKGROUND The prevalence of glaucoma blindness is about 8% of global blindness and in India is about 4.4%. The Intraocular Pressure (IOP) is a single major modifiable risk factor in glaucoma. In order to integrate IOP and CCT as a single risk factor, a new index 'Pressure-to-Cornea Index' (PCI) was proposed. But studies regarding the fact that the increased values of PCI will be a risk factor for glaucoma are limited. This study attempts to describe the role of PCI as a predictive risk factor in clinical POAG… Show more
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