[Chronic ischemic ophthalmopathy in Takayasu-Onishi disease]

Oftalmologia. 1996 Jan-Mar;40(1):39-44.
[Article in Romanian]

Abstract

The cronical ischemical ophthalmopathy represents an ocular clinical syndrome with well-defined clinical particularities. It is the effect of the decrease of the perfussion pressure at ACR level, during a long time period, caused by the stenosis of the aortic arch and his main branches. The paper presents a clinical observation of cronical ischemical ophthalmopathy having in ethiology the unspecific aortitis or the Takayasu-Onishi diasease. It is extensively discussed the ocular clinical syndrome and the particularities of the Takayasu-Onishi disease.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Chronic Disease
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Humans
  • Ischemia / diagnosis
  • Ischemia / etiology*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Prognosis
  • Retinal Artery*
  • Retinal Diseases / diagnosis
  • Retinal Diseases / etiology
  • Syndrome
  • Takayasu Arteritis / complications*
  • Takayasu Arteritis / diagnosis