Ocular Blood Flow (eBook)

Leopold Schmetterer  PhD is Extraordinary Professor of the Departments of Clinical Pharmacology and Center of Biomedical Engineering and Physics at the Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. He is Associate Editor of the journal Acta Ophthalmologica and Guest Editorial Board Member of the journal Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science. Jeffrey Kiel  PhD is Professor of the Department of Ophthalmology at the Univ. of TX Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX. He sits on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Ocular Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and Experimental Eye Research. Further, he is Editor for the Physiology Section of Foundations of Clinical Ophthalmology. Duane's Clinical Ophthalmology.

Anatomy of the Ocular Vasculatures.- Determination of Ocular Blood Flows with the Microsphere Method.- Laser Doppler Flowmetry in Animals.- Ocular Blood Flow.- Measurement of Ocular Blood Flow: Angiography.- Measurement of retinal vessel diameters.- Laser Doppler Techniques for Ocular Blood Velocity and Flow.- Color Doppler Imaging.- Other approaches.- Systemic determinants.- Local determinants.- Neural Control of Ocular Blood Flow.- Endothelial control.- Retinal ischemia in relation to glaucoma and neuroprotection.- Ocular blood flow in diabetes: contribution to the microvascular lesions of diabetic retinopathy.- Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Hemodynamic changes.- The Role of Ocular Blood Flow Abnormalities in the Pathogenesis of Glaucoma.- Ocular Blood Flow in Disease: Other diseases.- Systemic diseases.