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What happens if a patient has exactly the same severity of disease and same IOP in both eyes? Which eye do we call the ‘index’ and which the ‘fellow’ eye?

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What happens if a patient has exactly the same severity of disease and same IOP in both eyes? Which eye do we call the ‘index’ and which the ‘fellow’ eye?

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In the rare circumstance that exactly the same degree of disease is seen in both eyes then the patient would be asked to nominate an index eye. If they do not wish to do this then the clinician must nominate an index eye.