Significant correlations between optic nerve head microcirculation and visual field defects and nerve fiber layer loss in glaucoma patients with myopic glaucomatous disk

Clinical Ophthalmology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1721-1727

  Yokoyama, Yu ^a   Aizawa, Naoko ^a   Chiba, Naoki ^a   Omodaka, Kazuko ^a   Nakamura, Masahiko ^a   Otomo, Takaaki ^a   Yokokura, Shunji ^a   Fuse, Nobuo ^a   Nakazawa, Toru ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Glaucoma; Microcirculation; Myopia; Optic disk; Optic nerve head; Optic neuropathy; Retinal nerve fiber layer; Visual field defects

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE BLOOD FLOW; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; LASER SPECKLE FLOWGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN BLUR RATE; MICROCIRCULATION; MYOPIA; NERVE FIBER; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETINAL NERVE FIBER LAYER THICKNESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

EID: 84856203230     PISSN: 11775467     EISSN: 11775483     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/OPTH.S23204     Document Type: Article

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