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. 1981 Mar;65(3):153–160. doi: 10.1136/bjo.65.3.153

Infarction of the optic nerve head in children with accelerated hypertension.

D Taylor, J Ramsay, S Day, M Dillon
PMCID: PMC1039455  PMID: 7225307

Abstract

Four cases of anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy occurred in children with accelerated hypertension. The cause may have been a sudden relative fall in arterial pressure which reduced the perfusion of the optic disc, whose circulation was compromised by long-standing hypertensive vascular disease.

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