Assessing vascular function using dynamic retinal diameter measurements: A new insight on the endothelium

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 107, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1019-1026

  Heitmar, Rebekka ^a   Summers, Robert James ^a  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE;

ARTERY COMPLIANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; BLOOD VESSEL REACTIVITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CRITICAL FLICKER FUSION; ENDOTHELIUM; EYE BLOOD FLOW; EYE FUNDUS; FLICKER LIGHT PROVOCATION; FOURIER ANALYSIS; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; ISOMETRIC EXERCISE; MICROCIRCULATION; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETINA BLOOD VESSEL; STROKE; VASODILATATION;

DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, OPHTHALMOLOGICAL; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EXERCISE TEST; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LIGHT; MICROCIRCULATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETINAL VESSELS; TIME FACTORS; VASCULAR DISEASES; VASODILATION; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 84861722868     PISSN: 03406245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1160/TH11-11-0810     Document Type: Article

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