Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy remain among the most understudied areas despite the recent advancement in medical care and management.1 Although most of this is ascribed to a pregnancy-specific disorder, preeclampsia, there is a paucity of data and few recommendations about another potentially disastrous hypertensive disorder, pheochromocytoma, a catecholamine producing tumor, with a repor...

Hypertensive disorders in pregnancy remain among the most understudied areas despite the recent advancement in medical care and management.1 Although most of this is ascribed to a pregnancy-specific disorder, preeclampsia, there is a paucity of data and few recommendations about another potentially disastrous hypertensive disorder, pheochromocytoma, a catecholamine producing tumor, with a repor...

(1995) Treatment of bleeding from portal hypertensive gastropathy by portacaval shunt. Portal hypertensive gastropathy is a vascular disorder of the gastric mucosa distinguished by ectasia of the mucosal capillaries and submucosal veins without inflammation. During 1988 to 1993, 12 patients with biopsyproven cirrhosis (10 alcoholic, 2 posthepatitic) were evaluated and treated prospectively by p...

The Jornal de Pediatria published, in its 91st volume, a very interesting article entitled: ‘‘Growth of preterm low birth weight infants until 24 months corrected age: effect of maternal hypertension.’’ The authors tackled a very important issue in the context of infant and maternal health worldwide, mainly considering the impact of the gestational period on the offspring’s health and disease p...

BACKGROUND Hypertensive disorders represent the major cause of maternal morbidity in middle income countries. The main objective of this study was to identify the prevalence and factors associated with severe maternal outcomes in women with severe hypertensive disorders. METHODS This was a cross-sectional, multicenter study, including 6706 women with severe hypertensive disorder from 27 mater...

This stimulating monograph represents another brilliant chapter in the slowly unfolding story of arterial hypertension and hypertensive disease. The authors bring together in their relatively small volume the observations, results, and conclusions of a decade and a half of co-ordinated clinical investigation carried on in the Department of Medicine and of Physiology of the New York University C...

ABSTRACT Introduction Hypertension is a common clinical disease, which not uncommon in the aviation industry. Pilots suffering from high blood pressure need to control ensure flight safety. Exercise therapy an effective way pressure. Objective To design effects of exercise intervention treatment hypertension pilots. Method The article randomly assigned 41 pilot volunteers with two groups: and g...