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  • Title: [The symptom of congestive optic disks in the benign intracranial hypertension syndrome].
    Author: Gusev VA, Deev AS, Turevskiĭ II.
    Journal: Oftalmol Zh; 1989; (3):167-9. PubMed ID: 2797679.
    Abstract:
    Observations over 28 patients with benign intracranial hypertension, aged from 15 to 50 years, of them 25 women and 3 men, have shown that among possible etiologic factors of benign intracranial hypertension there appeared to be pregnancy in 19 women, respiratory infection--in 3 patients, climacterium--in 2, hypothyrosis--in 2, galactorrhea-amenorrhea--in 1, mild craniocerebral trauma--in 1; 75% of patients had excessive body mass. Among main symptoms of benign intracranial hypertension there were head pains (100%), congestive optic discs (100%), rise of csf pressure (87.5%), nausea and vomiting (80%). In a part of patients there was obnubilation (7), nystagmus (4), damage of the abducent nerve (4), retro-orbital pains (3), transient disturbances of visual functions (fall of visual acuity in 5, defects of visual field in 5). In I woman amaurosis in both eyes remained. The duration of the disease varied from 2 months to 2 years. In 3 women there were recurrences of benign intracranial hypertension.
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