Quantitative changes in perifoveal capillary networks in patients with vascular comorbidities

Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 5175-5185

  Chan, Geoffrey ^a,b   Balaratnasingam, Chandrakumar ^a,b   Yu, Paula K ^a,b   Morgan, William H ^a   McAllister, Ian L ^a   Cringle, Stephen J ^a,b   Yu, Dao Yi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capillary; Fovea; Hypertension; Retina; Retinopathy; Vasculature

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; CANNULATION; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MICROVASCULATURE; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA BIPOLAR GANGLION CELL; RETINA CAPILLARY; RETINA FOVEA; RETINA GANGLION CELL; RETINA INNER PLEXIFORM LAYER; RETINA NERVE CELL; VASCULAR DISEASE; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

CAPILLARY; FOVEA; HYPERTENSION; RETINA; RETINOPATHY; VASCULATURE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAPILLARIES; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FOVEA CENTRALIS; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MIDDLE AGED; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINAL VESSELS; VISION, OCULAR; WESTERN AUSTRALIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881169529     PISSN: 01460404     EISSN: 15525783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.13-11945     Document Type: Article

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