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Current methods only permit snap-shot measurements of intraocular pressure as the procedure has to be performed at the eye doctors’ office by eye care specialists. This results in quite infrequent measurements, far less than necessary for an adequate patient monitoring and patient care.
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Patients’ self-measurements and measurements under normal life conditions are not possible today. This results very often in low therapy adherence of many patients, which is followed by avoidable progression of the disease.
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Vital information about the highly dynamic eye pressure and its fluctuations and variability in between office visits and over the course of a day is currently not obtainable; therefore, results of a chosen therapy can’t be controlled in a timely fashion, therapy adjustment is in many cases significantly delayed. That is why a chosen therapy often fails and a patient suffers further progression of vision loss.