Association of Risk Factors for Choroidal Neovascularization in Age-Related Macular Degeneration With Decreased Foveolar Choroidal Circulation

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Xu, Wei ^a   Grunwald, Juan E ^a   Metelitsina, Tatyana I ^a   DuPont, Joan C ^a   Ying, Gui Shuang ^a   Martin, E Revell ^a   Dunaief, Joshua L ^a   Brucker, Alexander J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VOLUME; CHOROID; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EYE PHOTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTROPHY; KIDNEY DISEASE; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD FLOW; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SMOKING; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; VISUAL ACUITY;

EID: 77953916802     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajo.2010.01.041     Document Type: Article

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