• Medicine
• Published in Journal of glaucoma 1999
• DOI:10.1097/00061198-199904000-00005

Regulation of intraocular pressure after water drinking.

@article{Brucculeri1999RegulationOI,
  title={Regulation of intraocular pressure after water drinking.},
  author={M Brucculeri and Tom Hammel and Akeem Harris and Victor E. Malinovsky and Bruce J. Martin},
  journal={Journal of glaucoma},
  year={1999},
  volume={8 2},
  pages={
          111-6
        }
}

• M Brucculeri, Tom Hammel, +2 authors Bruce J. Martin

PURPOSE Acute oral water loading transiently elevates intraocular pressure (IOP) via mechanisms that remain unexplained. We tested the possibilities that water drinking might elevate IOP by creating a blood-aqueous osmotic gradient, or that it might instead alter active ion pumping and the formation of aqueous humor. METHODS In the first series, 16 young, healthy individuals were studied during dehydration and for 1 hour after rehydration (14 mL H2O/kg body weight). Hematocrit, total plasma… CONTINUE READING

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