Valproate Induced Hypertensive Urgency [PDF]
Case Reports in Psychiatry, 2016 Valproate is a medication used in the treatment of seizures, bipolar disorder, migraines, and behavioral problems. Here we present a case of an 8-year-old boy who presented with hypertensive urgency after initiation of valproate. Primary treatment of his
Mauran Sivananthan, Sarah Mohiuddin
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Evaluation of the clinical outcome of captopril use for hypertensive urgency in Khartoum State's emergency centres [PDF]
African Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2021 Background: Captopril is an important drug and is used to control hypertensive urgency world-wide. But there is very little data available regarding the evaluation of its outcomes in hypertensive urgency among African patients.
Amgad H.H. Obied, Aimun A.E. Ahmed
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Hypertensive Urgency and Anterior Epistaxis Caused by Antihypertensive Medication Noncompliance: A Case Report [PDF]
Open Access Emergency Medicine, 2023 Gudisa Bereda Pharmacy Department, Alert Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, EthiopiaCorrespondence: Gudisa Bereda, Pharmacy Department, Alert Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Addis Ababa, 1000, Ethiopia, Tel +251913118492 ; +251910790650,
Bereda G
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Profile of patients with hypertensive urgency and emergency presenting to an urban emergency department of a tertiary referral hospital in Tanzania [PDF]
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2018 Background Hypertensive crises are clinical syndromes grouped as hypertensive urgency and emergency, which occur as complications of untreated or inadequately treated hypertension.
Patrick J. Shao +5 more
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Understanding barriers and facilitators to clinic attendance and medication adherence among adults with hypertensive urgency in Tanzania. [PDF]
PLOS Global Public Health, 2022 Hypertensive urgency is a major risk factor for cardiovascular events and premature deaths. Lack of medication adherence is associated with poor health outcomes among patients with hypertensive urgency in resource-limited settings.
Godfrey A Kisigo +5 more
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Hypertensive crisis: clinical characteristics of patients with hypertensive urgency, emergency and pseudocrisis at a public emergency department [PDF]
Einstein (São Paulo), 2019 Objective: To assess patients with hypertensive crisis, classified as urgency, emergency or pseudocrisis, and identify the associated variables. Methods: We evaluated a total of 508 patients (57% women; 56.3±13.8 years old) with hypertensive crisis ...
Angela Maria Geraldo Pierin +2 more
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Non-adherence to antihypertensive medications in Lebanese adults hospitalized for hypertensive urgency and its cost [PDF]
BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2022 Background Drug non-adherence is assumed to play an important role in development of hypertensive urgency, which is a common health problem resulting in frequent emergency department admissions and thus increased healthcare spending wastage.
Hanine Abbas +3 more
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Hypertensive Urgency and Pulmonary Infiltrates: A Report of Three Cases [PDF]
Clinical Case ReportsHypertensive urgency is commonly attributed to medication nonadherence, progression of essential hypertension, or secondary causes. However, in some patients, no clear precipitating factor is identified, despite repeated evaluations and the absence of ...
Mónica Contreras‐Moreira
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Cannabinoid hyperemesis and pheochromocytoma hypertensive urgency: a case report [PDF]
Journal of Medical Case ReportsBackground This report presents a case of cannabinoid-induced hyperemesis syndrome causing repeated violent retching in a patient with a large (8 cm) adrenal pheochromocytoma resulting in hypertensive urgency.
Jeffrey M. Arendash +3 more
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Hypertensive urgency: an important aetiology of rebound hypertension. [PDF]
BMJ Case Rep, 2014 A 46-year-old African-American man with a history of hypertension, end-stage kidney disease (on haemodialysis) and previous cocaine misuse presented to the emergency room with a sudden onset of severe headache and diaphoresis without other neurological or cardiovascular signs/symptoms.
Malaty J, Malaty IA.
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