Management of acute central retinal artery occlusion

Nature Clinical Practice Neurology

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 376-383

  Chen, Celia S ^a   Lee, Andrew W ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETAZOLAMIDE; CARBOGEN; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; GLYCEROL; ISOSORBIDE DINITRATE; MANNITOL; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PENTOXIFYLLINE; STEROID; STREPTOKINASE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TOLAZOLINE; UROKINASE;

ARTERY DILATATION; ARTERY PERFUSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARBON DIOXIDE BREATHING; CENTRAL RETINA ARTERY OCCLUSION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFICACY; EYELID DISEASE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; INTRAOCULAR HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MASSAGE; NEOVASCULAR GLAUCOMA; NONHUMAN; PARACENTESIS; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD FLOW; RETINA VASCULITIS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; THROMBOEMBOLISM; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; RETINAL ARTERY OCCLUSION;

EID: 48949116960     PISSN: 1745834X     EISSN: 17458358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpneuro0811     Document Type: Review

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