HYPERTENSIVE ENCEPHALOPATHY WITH CORTICAL DISORDERS OF VISION.
HYPERTENSIVE ENCEPHALOPATHY WITH CORTICAL DISORDERS OF VISION.
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高血压脑病伴皮质性视力障碍。
DOI:
10.1093/oxfordjournals.qjmed.a067018
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发表时间:
1964
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通讯作者:
R. R. Russell
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作者:
E. Jellinek;M. Painter;J. Prineas;R. R. Russell
THE earlier observers of Bright's disease were inclined to ascribe its cerebral manifestations to uraemia, but the introduction of tonometry soon led to recognition of vascular factors. Pal (1905) in his treatise on vascular crises ('Gefaesskrisen'), associated an episode of blindness in a case of nephritis with a transient rise in systolic pressure. Pal (1905), Volhard (1923), and Blackfan (1926) all stressed the absence of uraemia in some cases of'uraemic amaurosia'and incriminated the raised blood-pressure. The term hypertensive encephalopathy was coined in 1928 by Oppenheimer and Fischberg for the recurrent focal fits of a young man with Bright's disease. At present, hypsrJbensixe encaphalapathy is used in a restricted, senae to jde^ cribe largely reversible cerebral disorders associated with raised blood-pretganrfl in the absence of evidence of cereBral thrombosis or haemorrhage. It is an uncommon condition, and well-documented CSB8S are lew: apart Tfomlihe case reports ofBlackfan (T926) and Oppenheimer and Fischberg (1928), six were described in a paper by Evans (1933). With the lessening incidence of acute nephritis it is becoming even more of a rarity. In a series of 225 patients with nephritis admitted to the London Hospital in the years before the last war hypertensive encephalopathy ocourred in 11, an incidence of 6-4 per cent, in this disease. Four of these patients had disturbances of vision without changes in the optic fundi (Wilson, 1963). In our own cases, cortioal blindness was the presenting symptom in two patients with acute nephritis and in one patient with renal artery thrombosis. The fourth patient became colour-blind and dyslexic in the course of an atypical relapsing nephritis.