The effect of membrane differential filtration on the colloid osmotic pressure in patients with age-related macular degeneration: Significance to visual function?

Therapeutic Apheresis

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 263-268

  Lüke, Christoph ^a   Widder, Randolf A ^a   Walter, Peter ^a   Brunner, Richard ^a   Kirchhof, Bernd ^a   Borberg, Helmut ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Deutsches Hamapherese Zentrum   (Germany)

Author keywords

Age related macular degeneration; Colloid osmotic pressure; Geographic atrophy; Membrane differential filtration; Retinal function; Visual acuity; Visual field

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MEMBRANE FILTER; NERVE FUNCTION; ONCOTIC PRESSURE; PLASMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD;

FEMALE; HEMOFILTRATION; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; OSMOTIC PRESSURE; RETINA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 0037969992     PISSN: 10916660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1526-0968.2003.00027.x     Document Type: Article

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