A wareness of cardiovascular disease in women is increasing and is currently a main topic of the heart associations and foundations worldwide. Although several guidelines underscore sex differences in clinical presentation, treatment, and prognosis, almost no attention is given to a unique risk marker in women: the obstetric history. Large epidemiological studies have confirmed the association ...

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy occur in about 10% pregnant women around the world. Though there is evidence that hypertension impacts maternal cardiac functions, relation between and dysfunctions only partially understood. The study this relationship can be framed as a joint inferential problem on multiple populations, each corresponding to different hypertensive disorder diagnosis, combin...

how to cite this article: sharifian m. hypertensive encephalopathy. iran j child neurol 2012; 6(3):1-7. hypertension is called the silent killer and vital organs such as the brain, eyes,kidneys and the heart are the targets. seizure, central nervous system (cns)hemorrhage, and cerebrovascular accident (cva), blindness and heart attacksare the end points.the prevalence of hypertension in childre...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Systemic hypertension (HTN) is a common medical condition affecting over 1 billion people worldwide. One to two percent of patients with HTN develop acute elevations of blood pressure (hypertensive crises) that require medical treatment. However, only patients with true hypertensive emergencies require the immediate and controlled reduction of blood pressure with an intravenou...

to evaluate the value of random urinary protein creatinine ratio in prediction of 24h proteinuria in hypertensive pregnancies. method: random urine samples and routine 24h urine collections were collected from hypertensive pregnant women (n=100). reliability of random urinary protein-creatinine ratio was assessed by receiver operator characteristic (roc) curve to detect significant proteinuria ...

intravenous hydralazine is a commonly administered arteriolar vasodilator that is effective for hypertensive emergencies associated with pregnancy. oral nifedipine is an alternative in management of these patients. in this study the efficacy of nifedipine and hydralazine in pregnancy was compared in a group of iranian patients. fifty hypertensive pregnant women were enrolled in the study. a ran...

Background: Lisdexamfetamine is a stimulant used for the treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Limited data exist regarding the presentation and management of patients with lisdexamfetamine toxicity. Case Presentation: A 17-year-old female with history of prior suicide attempt presented to the emergency department after ingestion of 50 lisdexamfetamine 40 mg capsules which belo...

While obesity is an indicated risk factor for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, smoking during pregnancy has been shown to be inversely associated with the development of preeclampsia and gestational hypertension. The purpose of this study was to investigate the combined effects of high body mass index and smoking on hypertensive disorders during pregnancy. This was a case-control study base...