Magnetotherapy designed to affect cervical sympathetic ganglia for the treatment of patients with primary open-angle glaucoma
Veselova, E.V.; Kamenskikh, T.G.; Raĭgorodkiĭ, I.M.; Kolbenev, I.O.; Myshkina, E.S.
Voprosy Kurortologii Fizioterapii i Lechebnoi Fizicheskoi Kultury 5: 21-24
2010
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-8787 PMID: 21328900 Document Number: 646705
The traveling magnetic field was used to treat primary open-angle glaucoma. The field was applied to the projection of cervical sympathetic ganglia of the patients. Hemodynamic parameters of posterior short ciliary arteries and central retinal artery were analysed along with visual evoked potentials, visual field limits, and visual acuity. It was shown that magnetotherapy with the use of an AMO-ATOS apparatus produces better clinical results in patients with stage I and II primary open-angle glaucoma compared with medicamentous therapy (intake of trental tablets).