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Query: UMLS:C0020538 (
hypertension
)
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The authors report on a polyradiculoneuropathy related to long-term treatment with
Perhexiline maleate
(a drug used in France since 1973 for coronary insufficiency) whose presenting sign is a bilateral aedematous optic neuropathy. The mechanism of this effect on the optic nerves and on papilloedema is discussed; it seems not to be caused by a direct toxic action on the optic fibres but by the existence of chronic intracranial
hypertension
.
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PMID:[Oedematous optic neuropathy from Perhexilline maleate associated with peripheral polyneuropathy (author's transl)]. 20 2
