[Retinal function after malignant hypertension in patients with transplanted kidneys].

Abstract

Ophthalmological examinations were carried out in 42 patients (aged 16-45 years) after kidney transplantation in whom malignant hypertension was discovered before transplantation. The first funduscopy revealed pathological changes of various type and grade (I-IV), in 17 patients the visual acuity was lowered and in 18 the ERG record was pathological (residual or extinguished). The control examinations performed in 19 patients after 1-5 years showed that the changes typical for malignant hypertension receded in 7; the fundus of the rest of the patients was the same as before. The lack of improvement in the ERG record points to a permanent lesion of the retinal activity after passed malignant hypertension in spite of normalization of the arterial pressure.

• Authors: E Dróbecka-Brydakowa, A Moszczynska-Kowalska, Z Rancewicz
• Journal: Klinika oczna (Klin Oczna) 1991 Apr-May Vol. 93 Issue 4-5 Pg. 116-7 ISSN: 0023-2157 [Print] Poland
• Vernacular Title: Czynność siatkówki po przebytym nadciśnieniu złośliwym u chorych z przeszczepionymi nerkami.
• PMID: 1921217 (Publication Type: English Abstract, Journal Article)

Topics

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Electroretinography
• Eye Diseases (etiology)
• Humans
• Hypertension, Malignant (complications, surgery)
• Hypertension, Renal (surgery)
• Kidney Transplantation
• Middle Aged
• Retina (physiopathology)
• Vision, Low (diagnosis, etiology)
• Visual Acuity (physiology)