Lack of spontaneous venous pulsation: Possible risk indicator in normal tension glaucoma?

Acta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 514-520

  Abegão Pinto, Luís ^a,b   Vandewalle, Evelien ^c   De Clerck, Eline ^c   Marques Neves, Carlos ^b   Stalmans, Ingeborg ^c  

^a Universidade de Lisboa   (Portugal)

^b INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA MOLECULAR   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

colour Doppler imaging; glaucoma; normal tension glaucoma; spontaneous venous pulsation; vascular dysfunction

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL PARAMETERS; CENTRAL RETINA VEIN VELOCITY; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LOW TENSION GLAUCOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROBULBAR CIRCULATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPONTANEOUS VENOUS PULSATION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

COLOUR DOPPLER IMAGING; GLAUCOMA; NORMAL TENSION GLAUCOMA; SPONTANEOUS VENOUS PULSATION; VASCULAR DYSFUNCTION;

AGED; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LOW TENSION GLAUCOMA; MIDDLE AGED; ORBIT; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETINAL VEIN; RISK FACTORS; TONOMETRY, OCULAR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 84882727620     PISSN: 1755375X     EISSN: 17553768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2012.02472.x     Document Type: Article

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