Effect of a nifedipine induced reduction in blood pressure on the association between ocular pulse amplitude and ocular fundus pulsation amplitude in systemic hypertension

British Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 704-708

  Bayerle Eder, M ^a   Kolodjaschna, J ^a   Wolzt, M ^a   Polska, E ^a   Gasic, S ^a   Schmetterer, Leopold ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUCONIF; NIFEDIPINE;

ADULT; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PNEUMOTONOMETRY; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TONOMETRY; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELASTICITY; EYE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIFEDIPINE; PULSATILE FLOW; RETINAL VESSELS; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 20344367774     PISSN: 00071161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjo.2004.062661     Document Type: Article

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