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Past Issue Volume 8, Number 5, October 2006
Bilateral Visual Loss Due to Antihypertensive Agent-induced Retinal Hypoperfusion Injury

Arijit Mitra, George M Saleh, Eleni Tsetsemeglou, Paul Hart, Peter Fison

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK

This report is of a patient with congestive cardiac failure and uncontrolled hypertension who presented with sequential sudden loss of vision after administration of a single dose of angiotensin II receptor blocker in combination with a diuretic.

Key words:
Heart failure, congestive, Hypertension, Ischaemia, Retina

Asian J Ophthalmol
2006;8:203-204.
 
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