hypertensive eye disease

Introduction

• includes a spectrum of pathological changes
  • hypertensive retinopathy
  • hypertensive choroidopathy
  • hypertensive optic neuropathy

Etiology

• develops in response to acute &/or chronic elevation of blood pressure

Diagnostic procedures

• funduscopic examination
• digital retinal fundus photographs
• non-invasive optical coherence tomography angiography

Complications

• marker for hypertensive systemic target organ damage
  • chronic kidney disease
  • vascular disease & incident clinical cardiovascular events

More general terms

• hypertension (HTN, high blood pressure, HBP)
• eye disease (ophthalmopathy)