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Case Reports
. 2020 Apr 6;192(14):E371.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.191275.

Hypertensive retinopathy and choroidopathy

Wendy Wong  1 , Lekha Gopal  2 , Chee Chew Yip  2
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Case Reports

Hypertensive retinopathy and choroidopathy

Wendy Wong et al. CMAJ. .
No abstract available

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None declared.

Figures

Figure 1:
Figure 1:
(A) Fundus photo of the right eye of a 23-year-old man, showing disc swelling, splinter hemorrhages, cotton-wool spots along the superotemporal vascular arcade (arrowhead), and hard exudates (asterisk) tracking toward the fovea. There is accumulation of subretinal fluid at the macula (note the fine retinal striae, indicated by the black arrows), which is a feature of hypertensive choroidopathy. (B) Fundus photo of the patient’s left eye shows similar but less severe changes.
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Comment in

  • Hypertonieschäden am Auge.
    Holzgreve H. Holzgreve H. MMW Fortschr Med. 2020 May;162(9):27. doi: 10.1007/s15006-020-0464-1. MMW Fortschr Med. 2020. PMID: 32405852 Review. German. No abstract available.

References

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    1. Abegaz TM, Shehab A, Gebreyohannes EA, et al. Nonadherence to anti-hypertensive drugs: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Medicine (Baltimore) 2017;96:e5641. - PMC - PubMed

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