Retinal venous pressure: The role of endothelin

EPMA Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Flammer, Josef ^a   Konieczka, Katarzyna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diabetes mellitus; Dilated retinal veins; Endothelin 1 (ET 1); Flammer syndrome (FS); Glaucoma; Ophthalmodynamometry; personalized medicine; Predictive; preventive; Primary vascular dysregulation (PVD); Retinal vein occlusion (RVO); Retinal venous pressure (RVP); Venous constriction

Indexed keywords

ENDOTHELIN 1;

ALTITUDE DISEASE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLOOD RETINA BARRIER; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CHOROID; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INFLAMMATION; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; OPHTHALMODYNAMOMETRY; OPTIC NERVE; PERFUSION PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA ARTERY; RETINA EDEMA; RETINA VEIN; RETINA VEIN OCCLUSION; RETINAL VENOUS PRESSURE; RETINAL VENOUS THROMBOSIS; RETINOPATHY; REVIEW; VEIN THROMBOSIS; VENOCONSTRICTION; VENOUS PRESSURE;

EID: 84945157467     PISSN: 18785077     EISSN: 18785085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13167-015-0043-1     Document Type: Review

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