The fundus oculi in the hemiplegic patient
Ochoa-Urdangarain, L.A.; Rodríguez-Romero, A.; Camacho-Caballero, O.; La O-Ramos, R.; Triana-Pérez, I.; González-González, M.; Morillas-Pérez, A.M.; Garrido-Pérez, R.; Ochoa-Varela, S.M.
Revista de Neurologia 32(4): 331-332
2001
ISSN/ISBN: 0210-0010 PMID: 11333387 Document Number: 526442
The fundus oculi is useful for observation of the interior of the eye and the retina. This study establishes a relationship between patients with established cerebral infarcts and the results observed in their fundi. A retrospective study of the clinical histories of 177 patients seen in the rehabilitation department over a period of one year. The patients were aged between 29 and 85 years. The majority were men; 101 patients (57.06%) had systolic-diastolic arterial hypertension. On study of the fundus oculi there was a predominance of alterations of the blood vessels of the retina due to vascular sclerosis (93.1%) but only 24.4% had frank alterations caused by arterial hypertension. We found a slight relation between arterial hypertension and the alterations observed in the fundus oculi of these patients.