This occurs when retinal blood vessels are damaged. The longer an individual’s blood pressure is high — and the higher the pressure is — the worse the damage. In many cases, changes in the appearance of retinal blood vessels, cotton wool spots and flame hemorrhages are the first signs ...
Mostretinal hemorrhageslook like dark red splotches. However, Roth spots usually stand out from other types of retinal hemorrhages. They are identifiable by their characteristic appearance. Roth spots look like small, flame-shaped lesions with a white spot at the center. These white spots at the ...
splinter hemorrhages (flame shaped hemorrhages) hard exudates (yellowish and sharply edges) cotton-wool spots (round whitish or grayish swellings) venous beading retinal edema intraretinal microvascular abnormalities (non-leaky collateral vessels found along the borders of the ischemic retina) macular edem...