Measurement of choroidal perfusion and thickness following systemic sildenafil (Viagra®)

Acta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 183-188

  Kim, David Y ^a   Silverman, Ronald H ^b,c   Chan, Robison Vernon Paul ^a   Khanifar, Aziz A ^a   Rondeau, Mark ^c   Lloyd, Harriet ^b   Schlegel, Peter ^a   Coleman, Donald Jackson ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^c FL Lizzi Center for Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

age related macular degeneration; blood flow drug effects; choroid blood supply; enhanced depth imaging ocular coherence tomography; sildenafil; swept scan ultrasound; vasodilator agents pharmacology; vision, ocular drug effects

Indexed keywords

SILDENAFIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHOROID; CHOROID PERFUSION; CHOROID THICKNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENHANCED DEPTH IMAGING SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; NASAL TO THE FOVEA; NORMAL HUMAN; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; SWEPT SCAN HIGH FREQUENCY DIGITAL ULTRASOUND; TEMPORAL TO THE FOVEA; UNDERNEATH THE FOVEA;

ADULT; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHOROID; HUMANS; MALE; PIPERAZINES; PURINES; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; SULFONES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VASODILATOR AGENTS;

EID: 84874257918     PISSN: 1755375X     EISSN: 17553768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2011.02305.x     Document Type: Article

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