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<strong>Fluids</strong> <strong>Hypertension</strong> <strong>Syndromes</strong> – Dr. Leonardo Izecksohn – page 179<br />

Scheme XIII-1: Cerebrospinal fluid pressure higher than the intraocular pressure.<br />

This can cause:<br />

Squeezing the Lamina Cribosa towards inside the eye, and it bows and aches as <strong>Migraines</strong>.<br />

Squeezing the Optic Nerve’s Dura mater at the orbit, which swells and aches as migraines.<br />

Chronic edema of the Optic Nerve’s fibers inside the eye at the borders of the Optic nerve disk.<br />

Spreading these edemas through and under the retina, and through the choroids, to the posterior pole,<br />

causing many retinal and macular degeneration.<br />

Acute squeezing the Central Retinal Vein inside the Optic Nerve, causing its thrombosis.<br />

Chronic squeezing and raising the blood pressure inside the Central Retinal Vein and its branches inside<br />

the eye, causing its branches engorgement, hemorrhages, thrombosis, chronic edemas and degeneration<br />

at the Retina.<br />

Acute squeezing the Central Retinal Artery and the arterial ciliary branches that nourish the Optic<br />

Nerve; this can cause the Optic Nerve’s infarct (NAION).<br />

XIII - d – 3 - Cerebrospinal Fluid <strong>Hypertension</strong> squeezing the 2 nd cranial nerve - Acute Squeezing<br />

the Central Retinal Vein in the Optic Nerve.<br />

The acute Cerebrospinal Fluid <strong>Hypertension</strong> can cause acute squeezing of the Central Retinal Vein in<br />

the Optic Nerve, which causes the acute retention of blood and raised blood pressure in the Central<br />

Retinal Vein in the eye. This causes the acute venous engorgement and can result in the Central Retinal<br />

Vein Thrombosis, or thrombosis of one of its branches. The thrombosis causes hemorrhages, exudation,<br />

and damage in the eye.<br />

Central Retinal Vein Thrombosis caused by beer: We had a black 47-year-old patient, weighting<br />

62 Kilograms (136 pounds), 1.72 meters (5 feet and 8 inches) tall, and arterial tension 120/80 mmHg.<br />

He once drank around 9.000 milliliter of beer at a two hours party, and after three days presented on<br />

our office with headaches, extreme engorgement of both eyes’ Central Retinal Veins, more than twenty<br />

intra-retinal hemorrhages in each eye and small edema of the borders of both Optic Nerve’s disks. The<br />

medicine classifies this as Central Retinal Vein Thrombosis in both eyes. There was no other neural<br />

damage. Since the first day, we prescribed him oral liquids restrain, no beer drinks, and medicated him<br />

with oral Acetazolamide 250 mg once a day. After two weeks, a cranial Computer Tomography with<br />

contrast shows no damage, which confirms the diagnosis of acute Cerebrospinal Fluid <strong>Hypertension</strong><br />

Syndrome caused by the excessive beer, which injured his eyes and vanished. He presented slow recovering<br />

of all hemorrhagic damage in few months, but kept moderate Central Retinal Veins engorgement.<br />

He is still presenting normal visual acuity because he had not any macular damage.<br />

The Cerebrospinal fluid pressure rise can be caused by many etiologies. Probably the increased<br />

drinks of caffeine on winter caused the increased incidence of Central Retinal Vein thrombosis at<br />

Taiwan:<br />

“Our study (from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database) demonstrates significant<br />

seasonal variations in the retinal vein occlusion incidence, with the peak occurrence in the winter<br />

month of January.” (Ho J D, and others).

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