Retinal ganglion cells, the neurons that die in glaucoma, are endowed with a high metabolism requiring optimal provision of oxygen and nutrients to sustain their activity. The …
DYL Leung, CC Tham - Clinical & experimental ophthalmology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Normal tension glaucoma (NTG) has remained a challenging disease. We review, from an epidemiological perspective, why we should redefine normality, act earlier at lower pre …
LK Wareham, DJ Calkins - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Glaucoma is a neurodegenerative disease of the visual system and leading cause of blindness worldwide. The disease is associated with sensitivity to intraocular pressure (IOP) …
Alterations in ocular blood flow have been implicated in mechanisms that lead to vision loss in patients with various ocular disorders such as diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, and age …
Neurovascular coupling, also termed functional hyperemia, is one of the physiological key mechanisms to adjust blood flow in a neural tissue in response to functional activity. In the …
KE Kim, KH Park - Asia-Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology, 2016 - Elsevier
Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness worldwide. Normal-tension glaucoma (NTG) is a type of open-angle glaucoma with intraocular pressure measurements always 21 mm Hg or …
T Csipo, A Lipecz, P Mukli, A Péterfi, Z Szarvas… - GeroScience, 2024 - Springer
With a growing elderly population in the European Union, age-related diseases associated with unhealthy aging pose increasing public health challenges, including a loss of …
ML Salvetat, F Pellegrini, L Spadea, C Salati… - Vision, 2023 - mdpi.com
Non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NA-AION) represents one of the most important causes of blindness or severely impaired vision in middle-aged and elderly …
Q Wang, X Qu, W Chen, H Wang… - Journal of Cerebral …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) has been suggested to be a neurodegenerative disease associated with altered cerebral vascular hemodynamics and widespread …