Hypertensive retinopathy is retinal vascular damage caused by high blood pressure. The condition occurs as a result of an acute increase in blood pressure. According to specialists, uncontrolled hypertension leads to vascular changes, smoking being a factor that accentuates its negative effects on the retina. At the same time, associated with diabetes, it increases the risk of decreased visual acuity. The initial symptom is a decrease in visual acuity that is usually ignored, and without treatment it progresses and cannot be recovered. The end result of hypertensive changes in retinal vessels is retinal ischemia, sometimes accompanied by hypertensive brain damage, anterior ischemic neuropathy.
Unfortunately, patients with severe hypertensive retinopathy and arteriosclerotic changes are at increased risk of coronary heart disease, peripheral vascular disease and stroke. Currently, the mortality of patients with untreated malignant hypertension is 50% within two months and 90% within one year. The treatment consists, first of all, in the medicinal control of arterial hypertension. At the same time, other diseases that can affect vision must be aggressively controlled.
2023-10-02 12:17:27
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