Vascular risk factors in glaucoma

Current Opinion in Ophthalmology

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 39-43

  Béchetoille, Alain ^a  

^a ANGERS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; BETAXOLOL; ENDOTHELIN 1; LEVOBUNOLOL; MAGNESIUM; NITRIC OXIDE; PROSTACYCLIN; THROMBOXANE; TIMOLOL; VERAPAMIL;

BLOOD VISCOSITY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; EYE BLOOD FLOW; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; OPTIC NERVE; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; TRABECULECTOMY; VASOSPASM;

EID: 0029761998     PISSN: 10408738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00055735-199604000-00007     Document Type: Review

References (37)

1. Peraesalo R, Raitta C: Low blood pressure, a risk factor for nerve fiber loss in institutionalized geriatric glaucoma patients. Acta Ophthalmol 1990, 68:65-67.
2. Kaiser HJ, Flammer J, Graft T, et al.: Systemic blood pressure in glaucoma patients. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 1993, 231:677-680.
3. Hayreh S, Zimmerman MB, Podhajsky P, Wallace L, Alward M: Nocturnal arterial hypotension and its role in optic nerve head and ocular ischemic disorders. Am J Ophthalmol 1994, 117:603-624. An important paper focusing on nocturnal arterial hypotension, even in patients with arterial hypertension taking oral hypertensive therapy, as an eventual risk factor in optic neuropathy. Raises again the difficulty of distinguishing clearly anterior optic ischemic neuropathy and glaucoma, particularly NTG. Why does the same arterial hypotension have two different consequences?
4. Bresson-Dumont H, Béchetoille A: Hypotension artérielle dans le glaucome à pression normale ou modérement élévee. J Fr Ophthalmol 1995, 18:128-134.
5. Béchetoille A, Bresson-Dumont H: Diurnal and nocturnal blood pressure drops in patients with focal ischemic glaucoma. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 1994, 232:675-679.
6. Graham SL, Drance SM, Wijsman K, Douglas GR, Mikelberg FS: Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in glaucoma: the nocturnal dip. Ophthalmology 1995, 102:61-69.
7. Pourcelot L: Application clinique de l'examen Doppler trans-cutané. In Velocimétrie Ultrasonore Doppler. Paris: Personneau Edit-Séminaire Inserm; 1974.
8. Galassi F, Nuzzaci G, Sodi A, Casi P, Capelli S, Vielmo A: Possible correlations of ocular blood flow parameters with IOP and visual field alterations in glaucoma: a study by means of CDI. Ophthalmologica 1994, 208:304-308.
9. Butt Z, Graham M, et al.: Measurement of ocular blood flow velocity using colour Doppler imaging in low tension glaucoma. Eye 1995, 9:29-33.
10. Ranking S, Walman B, Buckley A, et al.: Color Doppler imaging and spectral analysis of the optic nerve vasculature in glaucoma. Am J Ophthalmol 1995, 119:685-693.
11. Yamazaki Y, Miyamoto S, Hayamizu F: Color Doppler velocimetry of the OA in glaucomatous and normal subjects. Jpn J Ophthalmol 1994, 38:317-321.
12. Kerty E, Horven I, Dahl A, Nyberghansen R: Ocular and cerebral blood flow measurement in healthy subjects: a comparison of blood flow velocity and dynamic tonometry measurements before and after acetazolamide. Acta Ophthalmol Copenh 1994, 72:401-408.
13. Lambrou G: Choroidal Plerometry: A Method for Evaluating the Choroidal Blood Supply in Clinical Practice. Amsterdam: Kugler; 1993.
14. Okabe I, Kitazawa Y: Should more attention be focused on microcirculatory factors? J Glaucoma 1994, 2:181-183.
15. Flammer J, Guthauser U, Mahler F: Do ocular vasospasms help cause low tension glaucoma? Doc Ophthalmol 1987, 397-399.
16. Flammer J, Gasser P, Pointe C, Ke Yao: The Probable Involvement of Factors Other Than Intraocular Pressure in the Pathogenesis of Glaucoma. In Pharmacology of Glaucoma. Edited by Drance S. Van Buskirk M, Neuteld A. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins; 1993:273-283.
17. Harris A, Sergott RC, Spaeth GL, Katz JL, Shoemaker JA: Color Doppler analysis of ocular vessel blood velocity in normal tension glaucoma. Am J Ophthalmol \994, 118:562-649.
18. Saner H, Würbel H, Mahler F, Flammer J, Gasser P: Microvascular evaluation of vasospastic syndromes. Adv Exp Med Biol 1987, 220:215-218
19. Orgül S, Flammer J: Perilimbal aneurysms of conjunctival vessels in glaucoma patients. Ger J Ophthalmol 1995, 4:94-96. Advances toward a clinical marker of ocular vasospasm are discussed in this review.
20. Rader J, Feuer W, Douglas R, Anderson DR: Peripapillary vasoconstriction in the glaucomas and the anterior ischemic optic neuropathies. Am J Ophthalmol 1994, 117:72-80.
21. Hamard P, Hamard H, Dufaux J, Quesnot S: Optic nerve blood flow using a laser Doppler velocimeter and haemorheology in primary open angle glaucoma and normal pressure glaucoma. Br J Ophthalmol 1994, 78:449-453.
22. Drance SM: The Concept of Low Tension Glaucoma: A Challenge to Our Understanding of Glaucoma. In Normal Pressure Glaucoma. Edited by Béchetoille A. Angers: Japperenard; 1990:23-29.
23. Geijssen HC: Studies on Normal Pressure Glaucoma. Amstelveen: Kugler and Ghedini; 1991.
24. Stroman G, Williamson C1 Stewart WC, Karl C, Golnik KC, Joel K, Cure JK, Oliknger RE: Magnetic resonance imaging in patients with low-tension glaucoma. Arch Ophthalmol 1995, 113:168-172. Normal-tension glaucoma may be a diffuse cerebral vascular disease with a very specific ocular location.
25. Morsman CD, Bosem ME, Lusky M, Weinreb RN: The effects of topical beta-adrenoceptor blocking agents on pulsatile ocular blood flow. Eye 1995. 9:344-347.
26. Gupta A, Chen HC, Rassam SMB, Kohner EM: Effects of betaxolol on the retinal circulation in eyes with ocular hypertension: a pilot study. Eye 1994, 8:668-671.
27. Hoste AM, Sys SU: The relaxant action of betaxolol on isolated bovine retinal microarteries. Curr Eye Res 1994, 13:483-487.
28. Kerty E, Horve I, Dahl A, Nyberg-Hansen R: Ocular and cerebral blood flow measurements in healthy subjects. Ophthalmologica 1994, 72:401-408.
29. James CB: Effects of trabeculectomy on pulsatile ocular blood flow. Br J Ophthalmol 1994, 78:818-822. This study may show why trabeculectomy works well in NTG.
30. Hitchings RA, Wu J, Poinoosawmy D, Naught AMC: Surgery for normal tension glaucoma. Br J Ophthalmol 1995, 79:402-406. The trabeculectomy works better in NTG than other proposed treatments.
31. Gaspar AZ, Flammer J, Hendrison PH: Influence of nifedipine on the visual fields of patients with optic nerve-head disease. Eur J Ophthalmol 1994, 4:24-28.
32. Netland P, Cynthia L, Grosskreutz, et al.: Color Doppler ultrasound analysis of ocular circulation after topical calcium channel blocker. Am J Ophthalmol 1995, 119:694-700.
33. Gaspar AZ, Gasser P, Flammer J: The influence of magnesium on visual field and peripheral vasospasm in glaucoma. Ophthalmologica 1995, 209:1-13. How to avoid problems using calcium channel blockade in NTG.
34. B receptor, and cyclooxygenase products in rabbits. Oxford University Press; 1995:479-486.
35. Sato T, Takei K, Nonoyama T, Miyauchi T, Goto K, Hommura S: Increase in choroidal blood flow in rabbits with endothelin-1 induced transient complete obstruction of retinal vessels. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 1995, 233:425-429.
36. Heafliger IO, Meyer P, Flammer J, Luccger TF: The vascular endothelium as a regulator of the ocular circulation: a new concept in ophthalmology. Surv Ophthalmol 1994, 39:123-132. An exhaustive review of the state of the art in the imbalance between endothelium-derived relaxing and contracting factors, among others, in regulating micro-circulation of the posterior pole of the eye.
37. Porlellos M, Riva C, Drance S, et al.: Effects of adenosine on ocular blood flow. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 1995, 39:1904-1909.