Semi-automatic measuring of arteriovenous relation as a possible silent brain infarction risk index in hypertensive patients

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Authors: XM Vázquez Dorrego JM Manresa Domínguez R Forés A Heras Tebar A Girona Marcé MT Alzamora Sas P Delgado Martínez I Riba-Llena J Ugarte Anduaga SM Ruiz Bilbao P Torán Monserrat

Date: 13.06.2016

Archivos de la Sociedad Española de Oftalmología

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Abstract

OBJECTIVE:
To evaluate the usefulness of a semiautomatic measuring system of arteriovenous relation (RAV) from retinographic images of hypertensive patients in assessing their cardiovascular risk and silent brain ischemia (ICS) detection.
METHODS:
Semi-automatic measurement of arterial and venous width were performed with the aid of Imedos software and conventional fundus examination from the analysis of retinal images belonging to the 976 patients integrated in the cohort Investigating Silent Strokes in Hypertensives: a magnetic resonance imaging study (ISSYS), group of hypertensive patients. All patients have been subjected to a cranial magnetic resonance imaging (RMN) to assess the presence or absence of brain silent infarct.
RESULTS:
Retinal images of 768 patients were studied. Among the clinical findings observed, association with ICS was only detected in patients with microaneurysms (OR 2.50; 95% CI: 1.05-5.98) or altered RAV (

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@Article {
title = {Semi-automatic measuring of arteriovenous relation as a possible silent brain infarction risk index in hypertensive patients},
journal = {Archivos de la Sociedad Española de Oftalmología},
pages = {513-519},
number = {11},
volume = {91},
keywds = {

Eye fundus; Retinopathy; Arteriole to venule ratio; Arterial hypertension; Retinography; Silent brain infarct; Stroke; Semi-automatic retinal vessel quantification

}
abstract = {

}
pubmed = {1},
doi = {10.1016/j.oftal.2016.05.001},
date = {2016-06-13},
year = {2016},
}