Is symptomatic atherosclerotic cerebrovascular disease a risk factor for normal-tension glaucoma?

Medical Principles and Practice

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 220-224

  Güngör, Inci Ulu ^a   Güngör, Levent ^a   Özarslan, Yakup ^a   Aritürk, Nurşen ^a   Beden, Ümit ^a   Erkan, Dilek ^a   Onar, Musa Kazim ^a   Öge, Ihsan ^a  

^a ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cerebral atherosclerosis; Cerebrovascular diseases; Glaucomatous optic neuropathy; Normal tension glaucoma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LOW TENSION GLAUCOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC DISK CUP; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TURKEY;

EID: 79953671418     PISSN: 10117571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000323596     Document Type: Article

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