Value of retinal examination in hypertensive encephalopathy
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Serous retinal detachment in hypertensive posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome.
In accelerated hypertension, vasogenic brain edema associated with PRES may represent either autoregulatory breakthrough leading to vasodilation or excessive autoregulation leading to vasoconstriction. We describe 2 patients with PRES in accelerated hypertension who had serous retinal detachments, a vasoconstrictive phenomenon. The concurrence of serous retinal detachment and PRES offers intrig...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Human Hypertension
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0950-9240,1476-5527
DOI: 10.1038/jhh.2009.82