Macular capillary blood flow velocity by blue-field entoptoscopy in diabetic and healthy women during pregnancy and the postpartum period

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 240, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 977-982

  Loukovaara, Sirpa ^a   Kaaja, Risto ^a   Immonen, Ilkka ^a  

^a HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INSULIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLUE FIELD ENTOPTOSCOPY; CAPILLARY FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EYE FUNDUS; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ORGAN PERFUSION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUERPERIUM; RETINA CAPILLARY; RETINA MACULA LUTEA; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; VISUAL SYSTEM EXAMINATION;

EID: 0036953059     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00417-002-0590-8     Document Type: Article

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