[State of the microcirculation in hypertension according to conjunctival biomicroscopy data].

Microcirculation was studied by the method of conjunctival biomicroscopy in 276 practically healthy subjects and in 174 patients with various stages of hypertension. In 80 of these patients with hypertension the study was conducted in dynamics. Among healthy subjects abnormalities in the conjunctival microcirculatory bed were occasionally encountered, the possibility of their detection grew with the age of the person examine. Marked changes in the terminal blood flow, considerably exceeding the age norm, were revealed in patients with hypertension; these changes progressed with the growth in the severity of the disease. Microcirculatory disorders in patients with hypertension are rather stable in character.