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Ocular Blood Flow
Schmetterer, Kiel
Editore
Springer
Anno
2012
Pagine
457
ISBN
9783540694694
180,00 €
- Offers comprehensive coverage of ocular blood flow
- Provides a unique state of the art review of the current knowledge in this field
- Features a lavishly illustrated, reader-friendly structured written by international experts
Adequate blood supply to the eye is an important prerequisite for normal visual function. Over the past 40 years our knowledge of ocular blood flow regulation has improved significantly. This lavishly illustrated textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the current knowledge of ocular blood flow by:
- Evaluating the wide array of methods for measuring ocular blood flow
- Offering the reader an evidence-based summary on the physiological and pharmacological properties of ocular blood flow regulation
- Demonstrating the ocular blood flow abnormalities in different vascular diseases
This reader-friendly and well-structured book will enhance the understanding of all who are interested in learning more about ocular blood flow in health and disease.
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Contents
Part I Anatomy
1 Anatomy of the Ocular Vasculatures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Gerard A. Lutty, Imran Bhutto, and Donald Scott McLeod
Part II Measurement of Ocular Blood Flow
2 Determination of Ocular Blood Flows
with the Microsphere Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
Siv F. E. Nilsson and Albert Alm
3 Laser Doppler Flowmetry in Animals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Jeffrey W. Kiel and Herbert A. Reitsamer
4 Oxygen Measurements in Animals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Robert A. Linsenmeier
5 Measurement of Ocular Blood Flow: Angiography . . . . . . . . . . 95
Sebastian Wolf
6 Measurement of Retinal Vessel Diameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Gerhard Garhöfer and Walthard Vilser
7 Laser Doppler Techniques for Ocular
Blood Velocity and Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Charles E. Riva
8 Color Doppler Imaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Ingeborg Stalmans, Selim Orgül, and Leopold Schmetterer
9 Other Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Gerhard Garhöfer and Leopold Schmetterer
Part III Physiology
10 Systemic Determinants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
John V. Lovasik and Hélène Kergoat
11 Local Determinants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
Jeffrey W. Kiel
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12 Neural Control of Ocular Blood Flow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
Anton Reiner, Malinda E. C. Fitzgerald, and Chunyan Li
13 Endothelial and Adrenergic Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
Gerhard Garhöfer and Leopold Schmetterer
14 Retinal Ischemia in Relation to Glaucoma
and Neuroprotection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347
Neville N. Osborne
Part IV Disease
15 Ocular Blood Flow in Diabetes: Contribution
to the Microvascular Lesions of Diabetic Retinopathy . . . . . . . 365
Tim M. Curtis and Tom A. Gardiner
16 Age-Related Macular Degeneration:
Hemodynamic Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 389
Constantin J. Pournaras, Efstratios Mendrinos, and Jean-Antoine
C. Pournaras
17 The Role of Ocular Blood Flow Abnormalities
in the Pathogenesis of Glaucoma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 411
Balwantray C. Chauhan
18 Ocular Blood Flow in Disease: Other Diseases . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429
Makoto Araie and Junko Kami
19 Systemic Diseases : Cardiovascular Disease
and Ocular Manifestation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 433
Ghazaleh Gouya and Michael Wolzt
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
