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B-type natriuretic peptide in hypertensive crises: Diagnostic use in hypertensive urgencies and emergencies

Egyptian Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2013
Background: It is not so easy to make a quick screening between hypertensive emergency (HE) and hypertensive urgency (HU), as it often requires sophisticated, complex and time consuming clinical, instrumental and diagnostic tests.
Sameh El Maraghi, Hend Yahia, Ayman Heikal, Mohamed Ashraf   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hypertensive crisis and its predictors in Africa: Systematic review and meta-analysis, 2024

International Journal of Cardiology. Cardiovascular Risk and Prevention
Introduction: Hypertensive crises are a leading cause of visits to emergency departments, carrying grave health implications. A significant number of patients presenting with these crises have a known history of hypertension.
Ousman Adal, Natnael Kebede, Amare Mebrat Delie, Eyob Ketema Bogale, Tadele Fentabil Anagaw, Misganaw Guadie Tiruneh, Eneyew Talie Fenta, Destaw Endeshaw   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Role of Cardiac Biomarkers in the Diagnosis of Hypertensive Emergency

Diagnostics, 2023
There is a growing interest in the role of biomarkers in differentiating hypertensive emergency from hypertensive urgency. This study aimed to determine the diagnostic utility of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T (hscTnT ...
Mohammed A. Talle, Anton F. Doubell, Pieter-Paul S. Robbertse, Sa’ad Lahri, Philip G. Herbst   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hypertensive crisis: clinical characteristics of patients with hypertensive urgency, emergency and pseudocrisis at a public emergency department

Einstein (São Paulo)
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, Carime Farah Flórido, Juliano dos Santos   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hypertensive emergencies in diabetic patients from predominantly African American urban communities

Clinical and Experimental Hypertension, 2019
Aim: The aim of this study was to identify risk factors for hypertensive emergencies in diabetic patients presenting with severely elevated blood pressure.
Irina Benenson, Frederick Andrew Waldron, Shelly A. Jones Dillon, Shreni N. Zinzuwadia, Nkehci Mbadugha, Natali Vicente, Ela Aris, Adedamola M. Adeboye, Christine Makdisi   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hypertensive urgency or high blood pressure variability? [PDF]

Терапевтический архив, 2017
Hypertensive urgency (HU) is a common reason particularly for elderly patients to seek medical advice. Severe asymptomatic hypertension and situational high blood pressure (BP) in patients with its high variability is frequently taken as HU.
A V Rodionov
doaj   +1 more source

Understanding barriers and facilitators to clinic attendance and medication adherence among adults with hypertensive urgency in Tanzania.

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, Onike C Mcharo, John L Robert, Robert N Peck, Radhika Sundararajan, Elialilia S Okello   +5 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Hypertensive crisis in patients with obstructive sleep apnea-induced hypertension

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders, 2021
Background Hypertensive crisis is an urgent/emergency condition. Although obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in resistant hypertension has been thoroughly examined, information regarding the risk factors and prevalence of hypertensive crisis in co-existing ...
Sittichai Khamsai, Apichart Chootrakool, Panita Limpawattana, Jarin Chindaprasirt, Wattana Sukeepaisarnjaroen, Verajit Chotmongkol, Songkwan Silaruks, Vichai Senthong, Yuwares Sittichanbuncha, Bundit Sawunyavisuth, Kittisak Sawanyawisuth   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

ORBIT‐AMD: Ordinal Risk, Bilateral Imaging, and Trajectory Learning for Age‐Related Macular Degeneration in Multi‐Cohorts

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Eligibility flow and real‐world AMD burden in the UKB retinal imaging cohort and TMUEH external‐validation cohort. Overview of the ORBIT‐AMD architecture, integrating retinal representation pretraining, bilateral eye‐graph modeling and concept bottleneck learning to support ordered risk, bilateral context, interpretable lesion concepts, longitudinal ...
Xuehao Cui, Dejia Wen, Patrick Yu‐Wai‐Man, Xiaorong Li   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Intraoperative Hypertensive Urgency and Hemodynamic Instability during Microvascular Decompression for Trigeminal Neuralgia

Indian Journal of Neurosurgery, 2019
Objective To evaluate the factors predisposing to rare events of intraoperative hypertensive urgency during microvascular decompression (MVD) for trigeminal neuralgia (TGN) and outcome of MVD on long-term blood pressure (BP) control.
Pushkaran Jayapaul, Thanga T. Rajan, Aravind Sabeson   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source