Abnormal systemic and ocular Vascular response to temperature provocation in primary open-angle glaucoma patients: A case for autonomic failure?

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 3546-3554

  Gherghel, Doina ^a,b   Hosking, Sarah Louise ^a,b   Cunliffe, Ian Andrew ^b  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOT WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLD PRESSOR TEST; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EYE BLOOD FLOW; FEMALE; FINGER BLOOD FLOW; HEART RATE; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; OCULAR PERFUSION PRESSURE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; PULSE PRESSURE; RETINA BLOOD FLOW; RETINAL FLOWMETRY; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMAL STIMULATION; WARMING;

AGED; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY TEMPERATURE; COLD; EYE; FEMALE; FINGERS; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HEART RATE; HEAT; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VASOCONSTRICTION;

EID: 4644279716     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.04-0290     Document Type: Article

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