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ArticleScientific reports2018

Systemic hypertension is not protective against chronic intraocular pressure elevation in a rodent model.

Anna K van Koeverden, Zheng He, Christine T O Nguyen, Algis J Vingrys, Bang V Bui

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. A Model of Glaucoma Induced by Circumlimbal Suture in Rats and Mice.Journal of visualized experiments : JoVE · 2018
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Anna K van KoeverdenDepartment of Optometry and Vision Sciences, the University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3010, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-7435-7131
Zheng HeDepartment of Optometry and Vision Sciences, the University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3010, Victoria, Australia.
Christine T O NguyenDepartment of Optometry and Vision Sciences, the University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3010, Victoria, Australia.
Algis J VingrysDepartment of Optometry and Vision Sciences, the University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3010, Victoria, Australia.
Bang V BuiDepartment of Optometry and Vision Sciences, the University of Melbourne, Parkville, 3010, Victoria, Australia. bvb@unimelb.edu.au.ORCID 0000-0001-7298-1352
The University of Melbourne · AU

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High intraocular pressure is the most well documented glaucoma risk factor; however many patients develop and/or show progression of glaucoma in its absence. It is now thought that in some instances, ocular perfusion pressure (blood pressure - intraocular pressure) may be as important as intraocular pressure alone. Thus, systemic hypertension would be protective against glaucoma. Epidemiological studies, however, are inconclusive. One theory of why hypertension may not protect against elevated intraocular pressure in spite of increasing ocular perfusion pressure is that with time, morphological changes to the vasculature and autoregulatory failure outweigh the benefits of improved perfusion pressure, ultimately leading to poor retinal and optic nerve head blood supply. In this study we showed the presence of increased wall:lumen ratio and wall area of the ophthalmic artery in rats with chronic hypertension in addition to failure of retinal autoregulation in response to acute modification of ocular perfusion pressure. Subsequently we found that in spite of dramatically increasing ocular perfusion pressure, chronic systemic hypertension failed to protect retinal structure and function from a rodent model of glaucoma.

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AnimalsBlood PressureEssential HypertensionGlaucomaHumansIntraocular PressureOcular HypertensionOphthalmic ArteryOptic DiskRatsRetinaRetinal Ganglion CellsRisk FactorsTonometry, Ocular

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PMID29739991
PMCPMC5940769
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