Influence of vasospasm on visual function

✍ Scribed by Paul Gasser; Josef Flammer

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 816 KB
• Volume: 66
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0012-4486
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00144735

✦ Synopsis

In a number of patients with etiologically unexplained visual field loss, a vasospastic syndrome could be found with the help of a capillaroscopic local cooling test on the fingers. In the patients with proven vasospastic syndrome, the visual field defects were increased after a cold water test and decreased after a therapy with calcium entry blockers. General aspects of the physiology and pathophysiology of the circulation and especially of the circulation in the eye are presented.