TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kotliar, Konstantin
A1  - Vilser, Walthatd
A1  - Nagel, Edgar
A1  - Lanzl, Ines M.
T1  - Retinal vessel reaction in response to chromatic flickering light / Kotliar, Konstantin E. ; Vilser, Walthard ; Nagel, Edgar ; Lanzl, Ines M.
JF  - Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology. 242 (2004), H. 5
Y1  - 2004
SN  - 1435-702X
SP  - 377
EP  - 392
PB  - -
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kotliar, Konstantin
A1  - Nagel, Edgar
A1  - Vilser, Walthard
A1  - Lanzl, Ines M.
T1  - Functional in vivo assessment of retinal artery microirregularities in glaucoma / Kotliar, Konstantin E. ; Nagel, Edgar ; Vilser, Walthard ; Lanzl, Ines M.
JF  - Acta Ophthalmologica. 86 (2008), H. 4
Y1  - 2008
SN  - 1755-3768
SP  - 424
EP  - 433
PB  - -
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Garhofer, Gerhard
A1  - Bek, Toke
A1  - Boehm, Andreas G.
A1  - Gherghel, Doina
A1  - Grundwald, Juan
A1  - Jeppesen, Peter
A1  - Kergoat, Hélène
A1  - Kotliar, Konstantin
A1  - Lanzl, Ines
A1  - Lovasik, John V.
A1  - Nagel, Edgar
A1  - Vilser, Walthard
A1  - Orgul, Selim
A1  - Schmetterer, Leopold
T1  - Use of the retinal vessel analyzer in ocular blood flow research
JF  - Acta Ophthalmol
N2  - The present article describes a standard instrument for the continuous online determination of retinal vessel diameters, the commercially available retinal vessel analyzer. This report is intended to provide informed guidelines for measuring ocular blood flow with this system. The report describes the principles underlying the method and the instruments currently available, and discusses clinical protocol and the specific parameters measured by the system. Unresolved questions and the possible limitations of the technique are also discussed.
Y1  - 2010
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1755-3768.2009.01587.x
SN  - 1755-3768
VL  - 88
IS  - 7
SP  - 717
EP  - 722
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Oxford
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kotliar, Konstantin
A1  - Nagel, Edgar
A1  - Vilser, Walthard
A1  - Seidova, Seid-Fatima
A1  - Lanzl, Ines
T1  - Microstructural alterations of retinal arterial blood column along the vessel axis in systemic hypertension
JF  - Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, IOVS
N2  - Purpose: Image analysis by the retinal vessel analyzer (RVA) observes retinal vessels in their dynamic state online noninvasively along a chosen vessel segment. It has been found that high-frequency diameter changes in the retinal artery blood column along the vessel increase significantly in anamnestically healthy volunteers with increasing age and in patients with glaucoma during vascular dilation. This study was undertaken to investigate whether longitudinal sections of the retinal artery blood column are altered in systemic hypertension.

Methods: Retinal arteries of 15 untreated patients with essential arterial hypertension (age, 50.9 ± 11.9 years) and of 15 age-matched anamnestically healthy volunteers were examined by RVA. After baseline assessment, a monochromatic luminance flicker (530–600 nm; 12.5 Hz; 20 s) was applied to evoke retinal vasodilation. Differences in amplitude and frequency of spatial artery blood column diameter change along segments (longitudinal arterial profiles) of 1 mm in length were measured and analyzed using Fourier transformation.

Results: In the control group, average reduced power spectra (ARPS) of longitudinal arterial profiles did not differ when arteries changed from constriction to dilation. In the systemic hypertension group, ARPS during constriction, baseline, and restoration were identical and differed from ARPS during dilation (P < 0.05). Longitudinal arterial profiles in both groups showed significant dissimilitude at baseline and restoration (P < 0.05).

Conclusions: The retinal artery blood column demonstrates microstructural alterations in systemic hypertension and is less irregular along the vessel axis during vessel dilation. These microstructural changes may be an indication of alterations in vessel wall rigidity, vascular endothelial function, and smooth muscle cells in this disease, leading to impaired perfusion and regulation.
Y1  - 2010
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1167/iovs.09-3649
SN  - 0146-0404
VL  - 51
IS  - 4
SP  - 2165
EP  - 2172
PB  - ARVO
CY  - Rockville, Md.
ER  -