The effect of acetazolamide on passive and active transport of fluorescein across the blood-retina barrier in retinitis pigmentosa complicated by macular oedema

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 236, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 881-889

  Moldow, Birgitte ^a   Sander, Birgit ^a   Larsen, Michael ^a   Engler, Claus ^a   Li, Bin ^a   Rosenberg, Thomas ^b   Lund Andersen, Henrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b National Eye Clinic for the Visually Impaired Denmark   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ANTIGLAUCOMA AGENT; FLUORESCEIN; FLUORESCEIN GLUCURONIDE;

ACTIVE TRANSPORT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD RETINA BARRIER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FATIGUE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; FLUOROMETRY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NAUSEA; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PARESTHESIA; PASSIVE TRANSPORT; PERMEABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETINA MACULA EDEMA; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; SPECTROFLUOROMETRY; TASTE DISORDER; VERTIGO; VISUAL ACUITY; VITREOUS BODY;

ACETAZOLAMIDE; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; BLOOD-RETINAL BARRIER; CARBONIC ANHYDRASE INHIBITORS; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FLUORESCEINS; FLUOROPHOTOMETRY; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; MACULAR EDEMA, CYSTOID; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETINA; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA;

EID: 0031730193     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004170050175     Document Type: Article

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