Retinal function after malignant hypertension in patients with transplanted kidneys
Dróbecka-Brydakowa, E.; Moszczynska-Kowalska, A.; Rancewicz, Z.
Klinika Oczna 93(4-5): 116-117
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0023-2157 PMID: 1921217 Document Number: 386111
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.