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D M GORDON. Hand fundus camera.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/13530002/
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The technology of gene therapy may be one step ahead of the present understanding of angiogenesis. The results of studies to modulate angiogenesis have been encouraging, however, and several of these studies are in the preclinical and clinical phases of testing. It is likely, therefore, that gene therapy for such diseases as diabetes mellitus and age-related macular degeneration will soon become a practical reality. It must be hoped that the lessons learned will be beneficial to others attempting to modulate angiogenesis in systemic disorders such as cancer and rheumatoid arthritis.
Based on the body of evidence implicating ocular blood flow disturbances in the pathogenesis of glaucoma, there is great interest in the investigation of the effects of antiglaucoma drugs and systemic medications on the various ocular vascular beds. The primary aim of this article was to review the current data available on the effects of antiglaucoma drugs and systemic medications on ocular blood flow. We performed a literature search in November 2002, which consisted of a textword search in MEDLINE for the years 1968-2002. The results of this review suggest that there is a severe lack of well-designed long-term studies investigating the effects of antiglaucoma and systemic medications on ocular blood flow in glaucomatous patients. However, among the 136 articles dealing with the effect of antiglaucoma drugs on ocular blood flow, only 36 (26.5%) investigated the effects of medications on glaucoma patients. Among these 36 articles, only 3 (8.3%) were long-term studies, and only 16 (44.4%) were double-masked, randomized, prospective trials. Among the 33 articles describing the effects of systemic medications on ocular blood flow, only 11 (33.3%) investigated glaucoma patients, of which only one (9.1%) was a double-masked, randomized, prospective trial. Based on this preliminary data, we would intimate that few antiglaucoma medications have the potential to directly improve ocular blood flow. Unoprostone appears to have a reproducible antiendothelin-1 effect, betaxolol may exert a calcium-channel blocker action, apraclonidine consistently leads to anterior segment vasoconstriction, and carbonic anhydrase inhibitors seem to accelerate the retinal circulation. Longitudinal, prospective, randomized trials are needed to investigate the effects of vasoactive substances with no hypotensive effect on the progression of glaucoma.