In this paper we discuss two infants and one child who experienced a previously unreported complication after complete correction of a large, unrestrictive ventricular septal defect. Two patients had documented pulmonary hypertensive crises and severe right-heart failure secondary to hypoxia and pulmonary vasoconstriction. These crises were associated with significantly increased right ventricu...

62 year-old female presents with hypertensive urgency while taking daily NSAIDs. This case demonstrates the effect of NSAIDs on BP, an often over-looked etiology of secondary hypertension. The detrimental effects of NSAIDs upon blood pressure have been well documented. The report reiterates and reviews the severity of the problem. We will review the existing literature and discuss the importanc...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Hypertensive crisis is a condition characterized by rapid and inappropriate symptomatic elevation of blood pressure (BP) that is commonly seen in Emergency Departments. Oral or sublingual captopril is commonly used in the Emergency Departments. The unpleasant taste of the sublingual drugs causes uncomfortable condition to the patient. Studies showing no difference betw...

Introduction. Appropriate adherence to medication is still a challenging issue for hypertensive patients. We determined adherence to antihypertensive(s) and its associated factors among 280 Iranian patients. Methods. They were recruited consecutively from private and university health centers and pharmacies in four cities. The validated Persian version of the 8-item Morisky Medication Adherence...

1 The HUs are symptomatic clinical situations in which there is significant BP elevation (arbitrarily defined as DBP ≥ 120 mm Hg) without acute and progressive TOD. The HEs are symptomatic clinical situations in which there is significant BP elevation (arbitrarily defined as DBP ≥ 120 mm Hg) with acute and progressive TOD. 2,3 Patients complaining from headache, atypical chest pain, dyspnea, ac...

A 30-year-old female with no prior ophthalmic complaints presented with a 1-week history of bilateral gradual painless vision loss. Her blood pressure was 225/115 mmHg (Hypertensive crisis is defined as a systolic reading of 180 mm Hg or higher or a diastolic reading of 110 mm Hg or higher). Past medical history included chronic renal failure from IgA nephropathy requiring hemodialysis for the ...

Endocrine emergencies constitute only a small percentage of the emergency workload of general doctors, comprising about 1.5% of all hospital admission in England in 2004-5. Most of these are diabetes related with the remaining conditions totalling a few hundred cases at most. Hence any individual doctor might not have sufficient exposure to be confident in their management. This review discusse...

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...

Abstract Introduction and importance Hypertensive crisis may be a life-threatening condition to any patient represents an even more serious in trauma patients following severe hemorrhage. Case presentation We present case were surgical drape packing induced hypertensive patient, recently resuscitated from abdominal Clinical discussion argue that direct compression of the kidney by drapes hypers...

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 ...