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A Case of Unilateral Intraocular Pressure Elevation in a Patient With Glaucoma

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Based on this clinical scenario and the accompanying image, understand how to arrive at a correct diagnosis.
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A 52-year-old man with a history of severe primary open-angle glaucoma in both eyes and elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) in response to topical corticosteroids presented with an IOP above target of 19 to 23 mm Hg OS. He also had mild chronic macular edema in both eyes after remote cataract surgery and vitrectomy with membrane peel in both eyes. Two years prior, he underwent Baerveldt tube shunt in his left eye, and his IOP since surgery had been 8 to 14 mm Hg. Ophthalmic medications on presentation were timolol eye drops twice daily, brinzolamide-brimonidine eye drops 3 times daily, bimatoprost eye drops every night at bedtime, bromfenac eye drops once daily, and fluorometholone eye drops twice daily in both eyes.

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A 52-year-old man with a history of severe primary open-angle glaucoma in both eyes and elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) in response to topical corticosteroids presented with an IOP above target of 19 to 23 mm Hg OS. He also had mild chronic macular edema in both eyes after remote cataract surgery and vitrectomy with membrane peel in both eyes. Two years prior, he underwent Baerveldt tube shunt in his left eye, and his IOP since surgery had been 8 to 14 mm Hg. Ophthalmic medications on presentation were timolol eye drops twice daily, brinzolamide-brimonidine eye drops 3 times daily, bimatoprost eye drops every night at bedtime, bromfenac eye drops once daily, and fluorometholone eye drops twice daily in both eyes.

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Article Information

Corresponding Author: Elizabeth A. Cretara, MD, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, 1600 University Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87102 (ecretara@salud.unm.edu).

Published Online: November 10, 2022. doi:10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2022.4735

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.

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