RT Book, Section
A1 Chumley, Heidi S.
A1 Green, Mary Kelly
A2 Usatine, Richard P.
A2 Smith, Mindy A.
A2 Mayeaux, Jr., E.J.
A2 Chumley, Heidi S.
SR Print(0)
ID 1164343863
T1 Hypertensive Retinopathy
T2 The Color Atlas and Synopsis of Family Medicine, 3e
YR 2019
FD 2019
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259862045
LK dermatology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1164343863
RD 2024/04/20
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  23-1).  Fortunately,  the  remainder  of  the  neurologic  exam  and  the  ECG  are  normal.  The  patient  is  sent  to  the  emergency  department  to  be  evaluated  further  and  treated  for  a  hypertensive  emergency.