Changing antiglaucoma therapy from timolol to betaxolol: Effect on ocular blood flow

Ophthalmologica

Volumn 217, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 288-293

  Rainer, Georg ^a   Dorner, Guido T ^a   Garhöfer, Gerhard ^a   Vass, Clemens ^a   Pfleger, Thomas ^a   Schmetterer, Leopold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Receptor antagonists; Glaucoma therapy; Pulsatile ocular blood flow; Retinal blood flow

Indexed keywords

ANTIGLAUCOMA AGENT; BETAXOLOL; BETOPTIC S; EYE DROPS; TIMOLOL; TIMOLOL MALEATE;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHOROID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG INDICATION; EYE BLOOD FLOW; FEMALE; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTERFEROMETRY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER; MALE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETINA BLOOD FLOW; VISION TEST; VISUAL FIELD;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BETAXOLOL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EYE; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TIMOLOL; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0037941478     PISSN: 00303755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000070637     Document Type: Article

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