Relationship between the parameters of retinal circulation measured by laser Doppler velocimetry and a marker of early systemic atherosclerosis

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 720-725

  Nagaoka, Taiji ^a   Ishii, Yoshinao ^b   Takeuchi, Toshiharu ^b   Takahashi, Atsushi ^a   Sato, Eiichi ^a   Yoshida, Akitoshi ^a  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b Division of Cardiology   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; B SCAN; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MICROVASCULATURE; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD FLOW; SHEAR STRESS; THICKNESS;

AGED; ARTERIOLES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETINAL ARTERY; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 13944250200     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.04-0906     Document Type: Article

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