Ocular rigidity, outflow facility, ocular pulse amplitude, and pulsatile ocular blood flow in open-angle glaucoma: A manometric study

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 4571-4577

  Dastiridou, Anna I ^a   Tsironi, Evangelia E ^a   Tsilimbaris, Miltiadis K ^b,c   Ginis, Harilaos ^b   Karyotakis, Nikos ^b   Cholevas, Pierros ^a   Androudi, Sofia ^a   Pallikaris, Ioannis G ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

^b Institute of Vision and Optics   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aqueous outflow; Biomechanics; Blood flow; Glaucoma

Indexed keywords

AGED; AQUEOUS HUMOR OUTFLOW; ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; BIOMICROSCOPY; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CENTRAL CORNEAL THICKNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEA THICKNESS; EYE AXIS LENGTH; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MANOMETRY; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PACHYMETRY; PERIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BLOOD FLOW; TONOMETRY;

AQUEOUS OUTFLOW; BIOMECHANICS; BLOOD FLOW; GLAUCOMA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; ELASTIC TISSUE; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MANOMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; PULSATILE FLOW; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 84880081646     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.13-12303     Document Type: Article

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