Wall-to-lumen ratio of retinal arterioles and arteriole-to-venule ratio of retinal vessels in patients with cerebrovascular damage

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 4351-4359

  Baleanu, Delia ^a   Ritt, Martin ^a   Harazny, Joanna ^a   Heckmann, Josef ^a   Schmieder, Roland E ^a   Michelson, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERIOLE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMON CAROTID ARTERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RETINA ARTERIOLE; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINAL ARTERIOLAR WALL CROSS SECTIONAL AREA; RETINAL ARTERIOLAR WALL LUMEN RATIO; RETINAL ARTERIOLAR WALL THICKNESS; RETINAL ARTERIOLE VENULE RATIO; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; HYPERTENSION; INTIMA; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA VEIN; VENULE;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; ARTERIOLES; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTOGRAPHY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETINAL ARTERY; RETINAL VEIN; TUNICA INTIMA; VENULES;

EID: 70349235502     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.08-3266     Document Type: Article

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