Patients with diabetic retinopathy have high retinal venous pressure

EPMA Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Cybulska Heinrich, Anna K ^a,b   Baertschi, Michael ^a   Loesche, Cay Christian ^b   Schoetzau, Andreas ^a   Konieczka, Katarzyna ^a   Josifova, Tatjana ^a   Flammer, Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b Evangelical Hospital Mülheim an der Ruhr   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contact lens dynamometer (CLD); Diabetic retinopathy (DR); Ocular dynamic force (ODF); Ophthalmodynamometry; Personalized prevention; Retinal venous pressure (RVP); Spontaneous venous pulsation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC PATIENT; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PILOT STUDY; PRESSURE AND TENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DISEASE; RETINA EDEMA; RETINAL VENOUS PRESSURE; TRANSMURAL PRESSURE; VENOUS PRESSURE; VISUAL SYSTEM PARAMETERS;

EID: 84927738323     PISSN: 18785077     EISSN: 18785085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13167-015-0027-1     Document Type: Article

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