Enhanced pressure in the central retinal vein decreases the perfusion pressure in the prelaminar region of the optic nerve head

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 54, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 4698-4704

  Stodtmeister, Richard ^a   Ventzke, Sylvana ^a   Spoerl, Eberhard ^a   Boehm, Andreas G ^a,b   Terai, Naim ^a   Haustein, Michael ^a   Pillunat, Lutz E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^b Elblandklinikum Radebeul ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

Central retinal vein; Glaucoma; Ophthalmodynamometry; Optic nerve head; Perfusion pressure

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCEIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CENTRAL CORNEAL THICKNESS; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORNEAL PACHYMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA VEIN; TONOMETRY;

CENTRAL RETINAL VEIN; GLAUCOMA; OPHTHALMODYNAMOMETRY; OPTIC NERVE HEAD; PERFUSION PRESSURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC DISK; RETINAL VEIN;

EID: 84880128145     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.12-10607     Document Type: Article

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