Relationship between optic nerve head microcirculation and visual field loss in glaucoma

Acta Ophthalmologica Scandinavica

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 253-259

  Yaoeda, Kiyoshi ^a   Shirakashi, Motohiro ^a   Fukushima, Atsushi ^a   Funaki, Shigeo ^a   Funaki, Haruko ^a   Abe, Haruki ^a   Tanabe, Naohito ^b  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Blood flow; Glaucoma; Laser speckle flowgraphy; Visual field loss

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER FLOWMETER; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; FALSE NEGATIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 0038758717     PISSN: 13953907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0420.2003.00073.x     Document Type: Article

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