PEMF and Glaucoma

Abstracts of sudies on the use of PEMF with Glaucoma:
 
The effect of a pulsed electromagnetic field on the hemodynamics of eyes with glaucoma
The influence of pulse electromagnetic field (PEMF) on hemodynamics of the eye in open-angle glaucoma has been studied by means of a method and a device proposed at the Filatov Institute. The PEMF characteristics were: impulse frequency--50 Hz, exposition--0,02 sec., impulse shape--square, rate of impulse rise--4.10(4) c rate of magnetic induction rise--2.10(4) mT/c, amplitude value of magnetic induction at the impulse height--9.0--8.5 mT, duration of the procedure--7 min., a course--10 sessions.

Observations over 150 patients (283 eyes) with latent, initial and advanced glaucoma have shown a positive influence of PEMF on hemodynamics of the glaucomatous eye, stimulates the rise of aqueous outflow and production, and reduces the Becker's coefficient, with a rise of rheographic coefficient and relative volume pulse in 87,99 and 81,63%, respectively. The degree of the rise and restoration frequency of rheographic values of the glaucomatous eye under the influence of PEMF to the age norm was more expressed at initial stages of the glaucomatous process (latent and initial glaucoma). At the latent stage of the disease, normalization of outflow was recorded in 25% of cases, at the initial and advanced stages--in 17.8% and 16.0% of cases, respectively. The investigations carried out allow the recommendation of this method for a complex treatment of open-angle glaucoma.

• Tsisel'skii Iu, V. and Kashintseva, L. T. and Skrinnik, A. V.
• 1990
• 154-7--
• Aged *Electromagnetic Fields Evaluation Studies as Topic Eye/*physiopathology Glaucoma, Open-Angle/physiopathology/*therapy Hemodynamics/physiology Humans Middle Aged Ocular Hypertension/physiopathology/therapy
• http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Citation&list_uids=2255478
• Tsisel'skii, Iu V Kashintseva, L T Skrinnik, A V Comparative Study English Abstract
• Oftalmol Zh