title: Infarction of the optic nerve head in children with accelerated hypertension.
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.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications*; D007238:Infarction / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D009898:Optic Disk / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000473:pathology; D009901:Optic Nerve Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology