2Prof. Dr., Necmettin Erbakan Üniversitesi Meram Tıp Fakültesi, Göz Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı, Konya, Türkiye
3Asist. Dr., Necmettin Erbakan Üniversitesi Meram Tıp Fakültesi, Göz Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı, Konya, Türkiye Malignant hypertension (MHT) is an urgent clinical entity with high morbidity and mortality related to progressive renal and cardiac dysfunction. Eye is one of the target organs which is effected due to MHT. MHT should diagnosed and treated immediately to prevent target organ damage and death.
Fibromatosis occurs in shoulders, neck, dorsum and in soft tissues of the extremities. Also 5-10% of fibromatosis located in the mesentery, retroperitoneum and intestinal wall. Mesenteric fibromatosis (MF) exhibits benign pathology but it?s locally aggressive and infiltrative. MF should be resected as wide as possible to prevent of tumor recurrence and to increase the survival ratio.
A 18 year-old female patient with epilepsy was admitted to our department of emergency complaining of blurred vision on her right eye (OD) for two days. Best corrected Snellen visual acuity (BCVA) was 4/10 in right eye and 9/10 in her left eye. Fundus examination revealed apparent optic disc swelling, blurred optic disc margins (papilledema), hemorrhages in optic disc, cotton-wool spots and macular edema in both eyes.
In this case report, we aimed to share diagnosis and treatment of a patient developing MHT due to recurrence of MF.
Keywords : Malignant hypertension, mesenteric fibromatosis, papilledema, macular star