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Clinical assessment of hypertensive retinopathy signs using updated classification systems provides more accurate cardiovascular risk stratification and potentially guides treatment strategies.
Hypertensive retinopathy is an important prognostic indicator for cardiovascular risk stratification in hypertensive individuals, with evolving classification systems.
Hypertensive retinopathy represents the ophthalmic findings of end organ damage secondary to systemic arterial hypertension. The eye is a target organ as well as an established prognostic indicator of systemichypertension. Based on ophthalmoscopically visible alterations, several classifications, the majority of them grading hypertensive fundus changes into four stages have been suggested. The recognition of hypertensive retinopathy is important in cardiovascular risk stratification of hypertensive individuals. The review evaluates the changing perspectives in classification & prognostic significance of fundal lesions.
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Chopra et al. (2014) conducted a review in Hypertensive Retinopathy. Hypertensive Retinopathy Classifications was evaluated. Clinical assessment of hypertensive retinopathy signs using updated classification systems provides more accurate cardiovascular risk stratification and potentially guides treatment strategies.
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