Dynamic retinal vessel response to flicker in age-related macular degeneration patients before and after vascular endothelial growth factor inhibitor injection

Acta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 472-479

  Lanzl, Ines M ^a   Seidova, Seid Fatima ^a   Maier, Mathias ^a   Lohmann, Chris ^a   Schmidt Trucksäss, Arno ^a   Halle, Martin ^a   Kotliar, Konstantin E ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

age related macular degeneration; flicker stimulation; retinal vessels; vascular endothelial growth factor inhibitor

Indexed keywords

BEVACIZUMAB;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY CONSTRICTION; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJECTION; MALE; OPTOMETRY; PHOTOREACTIVITY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETINAL ARTERY; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASOCONSTRICTION; VASODILATION;

EID: 79960403566     PISSN: 1755375X     EISSN: 17553768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2009.01718.x     Document Type: Article

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