OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to evaluate a frequency and clinical presentation of hypertension crises due to age, gender, duration and seriousness at Emergency Medical Service Department of the "Dr Mustafa Šehovic" Health Care Center Tuzla. METHODS The research was conducted in the period between November 2009 and April 2010 and involved 180 examinees of both genders, aging between 30...

BACKGROUND Management of patients with severe hypertension without progressive target organ damage remains controversial. Some guidelines mentioned oral anti-hypertensive medication as a treatment to reduce blood pressure in the emergency department, while others recommended against such treatment. OBJECTIVE To review the management ofpatients with severe hypertension without progressive targ...

We report the case of a 55-year-old woman with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), who presented with hypertensive urgency and pulmonary oedema. The patient was medically optimized and underwent cardiac catheterization revealing pulmonary hypertension, elevated pulmonary capillary wedge pressure, normal cardiac index, and non-obstructive coronary disease. Invasive evaluation...

Introduction: Hypertensive crisis and hypertensive emergency are urgent medical conditions characterized by severely elevated blood pressure levels, often exceeding systolic values of 180 mmHg and/or diastolic 120 mmHg. The acute outcomes in patients with orthostatic hypotension include an increased risk cerebrovascular events, such as ischemic hemorrhagic strokes, well myocardial infarction.&#...

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...

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...

Acute control of blood pressure on haemodialysis (HD) should be differentiated from chronic BP control; Hypertension in HD is multi-factorial; Patients requiring total ultrafiltration volume greater than 2.5 kg may have an elevation in pre-systolic and pre-diastolic BPs; Larger fluid removals of range >10-13ml/hour/kg are associated with increased all cause and cardiovascular mortality; Both pr...