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  2. Hypertension - Wikipedia

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    Some people with high blood pressure report headaches, as well as lightheadedness, vertigo, tinnitus (buzzing or hissing in the ears), altered vision or fainting episodes. These symptoms, however, might be related to associated anxiety rather than the high blood pressure itself.

  3. Ocular hypertension - Wikipedia

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    Ocular hypertension is the presence of elevated fluid pressure inside the eye ( intraocular pressure ), usually with no optic nerve damage or visual field loss. [1] [2] For most individuals, the normal range of intraocular pressure is between 10 mmHg and 21 mmHg.

  4. Hypertensive retinopathy - Wikipedia

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    Signs and symptoms. Most patients with hypertensive retinopathy have no symptoms. However, some may report decreased or blurred vision, and headaches. Signs. Signs of damage to the retina caused by hypertension include: [citation needed] Laser Doppler imaging of the papilla of a patient with hypertension

  5. What is high blood pressure and why is it called the 'silent ...

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    High blood pressure, also called hypertension, is a vicious and smart adversary.It’s vicious because it greatly increases the odds of heart disease and stroke, some of the leading causes of ...

  6. Hypertensive encephalopathy - Wikipedia

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    Other symptoms may include increased irritability, vomiting, diplopia, seizures, twitching and myoclonus of the limbs. Alterations in vision (vision blurring, hemivisual field defects, color blindness, cortical blindness) are common. They occur in 4 out of 11 cases (Jellinek et al. 1964).

  7. Glaucoma - Wikipedia

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    Ocular hypertension (increased pressure within the eye) is the most important risk factor for glaucoma, but only about 50% of people with primary open-angle glaucoma actually have elevated ocular pressure.

  8. Hypertensive emergency - Wikipedia

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    A hypertensive emergency is very high blood pressure with potentially life-threatening symptoms and signs of acute damage to one or more organ systems (especially brain, eyes, heart, aorta, or kidneys).

  9. Normal tension glaucoma - Wikipedia

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    Normal tension glaucoma (NTG) is an eye disease, a neuropathy of the optic nerve, that shows all the characteristics of primary open angle glaucoma except one: the elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) - the classic hallmark of glaucoma - is missing.

  10. Arteriovenous nicking - Wikipedia

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    Hypertensive retinopathy with AV nicking and mild vascular tortuosity. Synonyms. AV nicking. Test of. Retina. Arteriovenous nicking, also known as AV nicking, is the phenomenon where, on examination of the eye, a small artery ( arteriole) is seen crossing a small vein ( venule ), which results in the compression of the vein with bulging on ...

  11. Intraocular hemorrhage - Wikipedia

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    Intraocular hemorrhage may be caused by physical trauma (direct injury to the eye); ocular surgery (such as to repair cataracts ); or other diseases, injuries, or disorders (such as diabetes, hypertension, or shaken baby syndrome ). [2] Severe bleeding may cause high pressure inside the eye, leading to blindness .