Abstract
Eighteen patients with idiopathic optic neuropathy lacked symptoms and signs of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease, especially when compared to three groups of patients with sudden visual loss caused by retinal infarction, transient ischemia, and cerebral infarction. Many patients in the latter groups had hypertension, carotid bruits, heart disease, transient ischemic attack, and stroke. But among the patients with ischemic optic neuropathy, hypertension was the only evidence of cardiovascular disease, affecting 44% of the patients. We argue that, in many cases, ischemic optic neuropathy represents a direct and early complication of hypertension arterial disease affecting small arterioles supplying the anterior part of the optic nerve. The pathologic process may thus be similar or identical to lacunar infarction of the brain.
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