Retinal peripapillary blood flow before and after topical brinzolamide

Ophthalmologica

Volumn 218, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 390-396

  Iester, Michele ^a,b,d   Altieri, Michele ^a   Michelson, Georg ^c   Vittone, Paolo ^b   Traverso, Carlo E ^a   Calabria, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b G GASLINI INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^d NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Brinzolamide; Confocal scanning laser; Glaucoma; Heidelberg retina flowmeter; Retinal blood flow

Indexed keywords

BRINZOLAMIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOWMETRY; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FLOWMETER; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; OPEN ANGLE GLAUCOMA; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PATIENT CODING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RETINA BLOOD FLOW; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISUAL FIELD;

ADMINISTRATION, TOPICAL; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARBONIC ANHYDRASE INHIBITORS; GLAUCOMA, OPEN-ANGLE; HUMANS; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LASER-DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; MIDDLE AGED; OPTIC DISK; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; RETINAL VESSELS; SULFONAMIDES; THIAZINES;

EID: 9244246338     PISSN: 00303755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000080942     Document Type: Article

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