Blindness after treatment for malignant hypertension.

Malignant hypertension after adrenalectomy

A 48-year-old Chinese presented with bilateral blurred vision, and was found to have accelerated hypertension and funduscopic manifestation of papilloedema. He had been diagnosed as having a left adrenal tumour 2 months previously, when he first reported anorexia and left upper quadrant pain. Computed tomography (Figure 1) and subsequent laparotomy excision revealed a large adrenocortical carci...

Malignant Hypertension Associated with Rhabdomyosarcoma

The Hypertension is divided into two types: primary and secondary. the secondary type, is particularly due to renal and arterial origin and is mostly seen. In children the Secondary hypertension caused by malignancies is rare. This is a case of abdominal rhabdomyosarcoma with malignant hypertension.

New therapeutical approaches for the treatment of malignant Melanoma

Blindness after snake-bite.

REPORTS of blindness produced by snake-bite are extremely rare. In one case described recently by Davenport and Budden (1953) bilateral secondary optic atrophy developed; the patient received Antivenine serum on the day of the bite and the changes in the eyes first appeared 6 days later. Jaksch (1897) mentions cases in which snake-bite led to amaurosis, but gives no detailed descriptions or oph...

Benign and Malignant Hypertension after Adrenal Enucleation in the Rat

Adrenal-enucleated, mononephrectomized rats given a high salt diet rapidly develop malignant hypertension, characterized by the presence of necrotizing vascular lesions in a number of organs and tissues. If a normal salt intake is provided, or if hydrochlorothiazide is given together with a high salt diet, there is, instead, the delayed onset of benign hypertension which either stabilizes or in...