Ocular Blood Flow in Glaucoma

This is the sixth World Glaucoma Association Consensus. The relationship between ocular blood flow and glaucoma has been discussed for more than a century, and still it uniformly fuels debates at glaucoma meetings throughout the world. Clearly, the results of this report will have broad and significant impact on glaucoma research and clinical practice. The global faculty, consisting of leading authorities on the scientific and clinical aspects of ocular blood flow, have met in Fort Lauderdale on May 2, 2009 to discuss the reports and refine the consensus statements.

PREFACE; WELCOME; ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY Louis Pasquale, Jost Jonas, Douglas Anderson; Anatomy of blood from the heart to the eye; Blood supply of the optic nerve; Overview of blood flow regulation in general; The mediators of autoregulation; The anatomic underpinning of ocular blood flow control; The ocular vasculature and its role in regulating blood flow to the optic nerve and; CLINICAL MEASUREMENT OF OCULAR BLOOD FLOW Alon Harris, Ingrida Januleviciene, Brent Siesky, Leo Schmetterer, Larry Kageman, Ingeborg Stalmans, Ali Hafez, Makoto Araie, Chris Hudson, John Flanagan, Sub.

Color Doppler ImagingLaser Doppler Flowmetry and Scanning Laser Flowmetry; Retinal Vessel Analyzer; Blue Field Entoptic Stimulation; Laser Interferometric Measurement of Fundus Pulsation; Dynamic Contour Tonometry and Ocular Pulse Amplitude; Pulsatile Ocular Blood Flow (POBF) Analyzer; Laser Speckle Method (Laser Speckle Flowgraphy); Digital Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope Angiography; Bi-directional Laser Doppler Velocimetry an.