Pulsatile ocular blood flow measurements in healthy eyes: Reproducibility and reference values

Journal of Glaucoma

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 175-179

  Yang, Yit C ^a,c   Hulbert, Mark F G ^a   Batterbury, Mark ^a   Clearkin, Louis G ^b  

^a St Paul's Eye Unit   (United Kingdom)

^b ARROWE PARK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL LIVERPOOL AND BROADGREEN UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Pulsatile ocular blood flow; Reference values; Reproducibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CALCULATION; EYE BLOOD FLOW; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSATILE FLOW; PULSE RATE; REFERENCE VALUE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; EYE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PULSATILE FLOW; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0030803374     PISSN: 10570829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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