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Hypertensive Urgencies and Emergencies

Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 2006
Hypertension management is a common reason for visits to primary care physicians. One third of patients with hypertension do not have controlled blood pressure, and may present to the physician's office with hypertensive urgencies or emergencies. How to define severely elevated blood pressure, appropriate triage, and the clinical evaluation of those ...
David L, Stewart, Sharon E, Feinstein, Richard, Colgan   +2 more
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Clonidine in Hypertensive Urgencies

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1982
To the Editor.— In the recent article on the use of clonidine in hypertensive urgencies (1981;246:848), it seems clear that this agent is effective in those patients with severe hypertension who do not constitute a hypertensive emergency. However, we do have one major concern.
F G, Dunn, F H, Messerli, G R, Dreslinski   +2 more
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Hypertensive Crisis: Hypertensive Emergencies and Urgencies

Cardiology Clinics, 2006
Hypertensive crisis is a serious condition that is associated with end-organ damage or may result in end-organ damage if left untreated. Causes of acute rises in blood pressure include medications,noncompliance, and poorly controlled chronic hypertension.
Monica, Aggarwal, Ijaz A, Khan
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Les urgences hypertensives

Annales de Cardiologie et d'Angéiologie, 2007
Resume L'urgence hypertensive est difficile a definir chez l'hypertendu en pratique clinique, alors qu'il s'agit d'une situation frequente. Son epidemiologie et sa physiopathologie sont decrites brievement. Sur le plan clinique, l'urgence hypertensive est grave par ses complications immediates au niveau des organes cibles, tant cerebrales que ...
M. Escande, B. Diadema, M.-C. Icard, J.-.P Peyre   +3 more
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Oral labetalol in hypertensive urgencies

The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, 1991
The response to incremental doses of oral labetalol in 16 patients with hypertensive urgencies is presented. After inadequate blood pressure control with 20 mg of intravenous furosemide, each patient received a 300 mg oral dose of labetalol. Subsequent oral doses of labetalol, 100 mg, were administered at 2-hour intervals, if the diastolic blood ...
M, Zell-Kanter, J B, Leikin
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Hypertensive Emergencies and Urgencies

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1986
IN ITS 1984 report,1the Joint National Committee on Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure proposed an operational classification of hypertensive emergencies and urgencies. This group suggests thatemergenciesare situations in which greatly elevated blood pressure must be lowered within one hour to reduce actual patient risk ...
R K, Ferguson, P H, Vlasses
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Hypertensive Emergencies and Urgencies

Presse medicale (Paris, France : 1983), 2016
Hypertension is a common disease, the most common chronic disease. Hypertensive emergency is much less frequent and only affects 1 to 2 % of all hypertensive patients. The true hypertensive emergency is characterized by the serious damage of one hypertensive target organ and requires an urgent intravenous treatment.
GR Kane, Somnath Mallakmir, Jaideep Rajebahadur   +2 more
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Hypertensive Urgencies and Emergencies

2007
As persons age, their life styles change, and they become more affluent and obese. If this trend continues, the incidence of associated hypertension (HTN) will continue to increase worldwide [1]. At the same time, despite widely recognized dangers of uncontrolled HTN, it is still under-treated in most patients.
Ehud Grossman, Franz H. Messerli
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