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- Title
Central retinal vein occlusion in hypertensive patient--a case report.
- Authors
Pawlak, Regina; Krasińska, Aleksandra; Brązert, Agata; Piotrowska, Katarzyna; Uruski, Paweł; Tykarski, Andrzej
- Abstract
Retinal vein occlusion (RVO) is, beside diabetic retinopathy, the most common retinal vascular disease. RVO is associated with many risk factors, both systemic and ocular. Among the systemic risk factors is hypertension. A 36-year-old man came to the hospital because of impaired vision. Central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) was diagnosed. The main reason for developing RVO was the untreated hypertension, which was diagnosed in the form of hypertensive crisis. The patient presented numerous additional CRVO risk factors that contributed to the development of the described pathology like: obesity, dyslipidaemia, hyperhomocysteinaemia, renal cancer. The authors suggested active examination for CRVO risk factors regardless of the age of patients.
- Subjects
RETINAL vein; HYPERTENSIVE crisis; VASCULAR diseases; VASCULAR disease diagnosis; OBESITY
- Publication
Arterial Hypertension, 2019, Vol 23, Issue 2, p114
- ISSN
2449-6170
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5603/AH.a2019.0010