Subfoveal choroidal blood flow and central retinal function in retinitis pigmentosa

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1064-1069

  Falsini, Benedetto ^a   Anselmi, Gian Mario ^a   Marangoni, Dario ^a   D'Esposito, Fabiana ^b,c   Fadda, Antonello ^d   di Renzo, Antonio ^e   Campos, Emilio C ^f   Riva, Charles E ^f  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c CEINGE BIOTECNOLOGIE AVANZATE   (Italy)

^d ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^e IRCCS FONDAZIONE BIETTI   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD VOLUME; CIRCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAM; EYE BLOOD FLOW; FEMALE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA CONE; RETINA DISEASE; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION; CHILD; CHOROID; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; RETINA; RETINA FOVEA; VASCULARIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHILD; CHOROID; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETINA; RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD TESTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953286119     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.10-5964     Document Type: Article

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