Addition of or switch to topical bunazosin hydrochloride in elderly patients with normal-tension glaucoma: A one-year follow-up study

Japanese Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 443-448

  Yoshikawa, Keiji ^a,f   Katsushima, Harumi ^b   Kimura, Tairo ^c   Yamagishi, Kazuya ^d   Yamabayashi, Shigeki ^e  

^a Yoshikawa Eye Clinic   (Japan)

^b Katsushima Eye Clinic   (Japan)

^c Ueno Eye Clinic   (Japan)

^d Hirakata Yamagishi Eye Cent   (Japan)

^e Yamabayashi Eye Clinic   (Japan)

^f Yoshikawa Eye Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bunazosin hydrochloride; Efficacy of bunazosin; Elderly patients; Normal tension glaucoma; Safety of bunazosin

Indexed keywords

ANTIGLAUCOMA AGENT; BETAXOLOL; BUNAZOSIN; LATANOPROST; TIMOLOL; UNOPROSTONE ISOPROPYL ESTER;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLEPHAROSPASM; BLURRED VISION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONJUNCTIVAL HYPEREMIA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; EYE DISCHARGE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; KERATITIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NORMAL TENSION GLAUCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RETINA HEMORRHAGE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-ANTAGONISTS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; OPHTHALMIC SOLUTIONS; QUINAZOLINES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 33749351958     PISSN: 00215155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10384-006-0351-z     Document Type: Article

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