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A Case of Hypertensive Retinopathy With Papilledema Manifested As Blurry Vision, Headache, and Dizziness in A Patient With A Recent Diagnosis of Peritoneal Tuberculosis
A Case of Hypertensive Retinopathy With Papilledema Manifested As Blurry Vision, Headache, and Dizziness in A Patient With A Recent Diagnosis of Peritoneal Tuberculosis
often accompanied by a macular star sign. Furthermore, particularly prevalent among younger patients afflicted with
hypertension can also instigate choroidopathy, a condition malignant hypertension [4].
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*Data obtained during the investigation of the patient at International Medical Centre, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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arteriolar narrowing in fundoscopic examination:
Funding Evidence of a low performance of direct
The author received no financial support for the ophthalmoscopy in comparison with a
research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. microdensitometric method. Am J Hypertens.
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Patient Consent [12]. Koch E, Rosenbaum D, Brolly A, et al. Morphometric
The patient consented to the submission of this case analysis of small arteries in the human retina using
report to the journal. adaptive optics imaging: Relationship with blood
pressure and focal vascular changes. Journal of
Conflict of Interest Statement hypertension. 2014;32(4):890–98.
The author declared no potential conflicts of interest [13]. Ponto KA, Werner DJ, Wiedemer L, et al. Retinal
concerning the research, authorship, and/or publication of vessel metrics: Normative data and their use in systemic
this article. hypertension: Results from the Gutenberg Health Study.
J Hypertens. 2017;35(8):1635–45.
VII. ORCID [14]. Chatterjee S, Chattopadhyay S, Hope-Ross M, Lip PL.
Hypertension and the eye: changing perspectives. J
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