RT Book, Section
A1 Usatine, Richard P.
A1 Smith, Mindy A.
A1 Chumley, Heidi S.
A1 Mayeaux, E.J.
SR Print(0)
ID 57671613
T1 Chapter 21. Hypertensive Retinopathy
T2 The Color Atlas of Family Medicine, 2e
YR 2013
FD 2013
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-176964-8
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=57671613
RD 2024/04/24
AB A  37-year-old  man  comes  in  for  a  physical  examination  and  is  noted  to  have  a  blood  pressure  of  198/142  mm  Hg.  He  has  no  symptoms  at  the  time.  The  physician  performs  a  dilated  funduscopic  examination  and  notes  optic  disc  edema,  cotton  wool  spots,  flame  hemorrhages,  dot-blot  hemorrhages,  arteriovenous  nicking,  and  exudates  (Figure  21-1).  Fortunately,  the  remainder  of  the  neurological  exam  and  the  EKG  are  normal.  The  patient  is  sent  to  the  emergency  room  to  be  evaluated  further  and  treated  for  a  hypertensive  emergency.