It is unclear whether patients with hypertension are more likely to be infected severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) than the general population and there a difference in severity of disease (COVID-19) pneumonia who have taken ACEI/ARB drugs compared those not.

• Nephreetomized dogs given sodium parenterally and protein by diet develop acute hypertensive cardiovascular disease.' Protection, against acute renoprival hypertension of this type has been demonstrated for (a) intact renal tissue as exemplified by ureterocaval anastomosis, (b) autoexplanation of whole kidney or renal medulla, and (c) a crude extract of renal medulla. Both medullorenal extrac...

Superior sagittal sinus pressure, intracranial pressure and arterial pressure were recorded in an experimental series on 10 cats. During drug-induced, severe, acute arterial hypertension and parallel hypercapnia, venous pressure could exceed intracranial pressure in both the supra- and infratentorial compartment. From these data it is concluded that cerebral venous pressure during acute arteria...

Patients and methods: This was a prospective study in which all admitted patients for acute ischemic stroke within 24 hours throughout the year 2006 were included. The severity of the stroke was based on the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale (NIHSS). The 2005 AHA/ASA guidelines in the management of acute ischemic stroke were followed. We also followed the same guidelines in the treatme...

A 32-year-old woman with advanced idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), treated with oral tadalafil and intravenous epoprostenol, presented with typical angina pectoris of one day's duration. Her electrocardiogram, previously typical of pulmonary hypertension, revealed an acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction in the anterior precordial leads. She had a prior coronary angiogram, i...

Hypertension is a rare complication of acute intermittent porphyria (AIP) and is related to the sympathetic over-activity seen in this condition. We report a patient with AIP with malignant hypertension that recurred with a subsequent episode. Mechanisms of hypertension and renal damage are discussed.

While the chronic form of hypertension is most common; the acute form presents the greater danger, with more frequent and severe complications and poorer short‐term prognosis compared to chronic hypertension. Antihypertensive drugs are used to treat acute hypertension according to the condition of the patient, target organ injured, and the resources available to monitor the patient. However, th...

Hypertension is an extremely common clinical problem, affecting approximately 50 million people in the USA and approximately 1 billion individuals worldwide. Approximately 1% of these patients will develop acute elevations in blood pressure at some point in their lifetime. A number of terms have been applied to severe hypertension, including hypertensive crises, emergencies, and urgencies. By d...

In the acute stage of pancreatitis, sinistral portal hypertension is a rare reason for gastric variceal bleeding. Here we report a 20-year-old female patient with massive upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage 7 days after an episode of severe acute pancreatitis. Computed tomography showed gastric varices caused by splenic venous thrombosis. Emergency endoscopic examination was performed, however ti...