Ocular Blood Flow

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 reader-friendly textbook provides a comprehensive overview of the current knowledge of ocular blood flow. Lavishly illustrated, it evaluates the wide array of methods that have been used to measure ocular blood flow. Furthermore, it not only offers the reader an evidence-based summary of the physiological and pharmacological properties of ocular blood flow regulation, but also demonstrates the ocular blood flow abnormalities in different vascular diseases. This book will enhance the understanding of all who are interested in learning more about ocular blood flow in health and disease.

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.

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.