Estimation of ocular rigidity based on measurement of pulse amplitude using pneumotonometry and fundus pulse using laser interferometry in glaucoma

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 4046-4050

  Hommer, Anton ^a,b   Fuchsjäger Mayrl, Gabriele ^a   Resch, Hemma ^a   Vass, Clemens ^a   Garhofer, Gerhard ^a   Schmetterer, Leopold ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Sanatorium Hera ^*  (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIMATOPROST; BRIMONIDINE; DORZOLAMIDE; LATANOPROST; LEVOBUNOLOL; METIPRANOLOL; TIMOLOL; TRAVOPROST; PROSTAGLANDIN F; SULFONAMIDE; THIOPHENE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD SMEAR; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FUNDUS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; INTERFEROMETRY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCULOPLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGIDITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG COMBINATION; LIGHT; MIDDLE AGED; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PULSE RATE; REFERENCE VALUE;

AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; FUNDUS OCULI; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTERFEROMETRY; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASERS; LIGHT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTAGLANDINS F, SYNTHETIC; PULSE; REFERENCE VALUES; SULFONAMIDES; THIOPHENES; TIMOLOL; TONOMETRY, OCULAR;

EID: 53149132808     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.07-1342     Document Type: Article

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