A 2-week-old infant with normal intracardiac anatomy presented to the emergency department in a hypertensive crisis with acute cardiac failure. Despite extensive evaluation, no underlying disease was found. The patient's hypertension and cardiac dysfunction resolved after 1 week of supportive care in the PICU, and she was discharged within 2 weeks of presentation. The patient's history revealed...

Mild (140 to 159/90 to 99 mmHg) or moderate (160 to 179/100 to 109 mmHg) chronic arterial hypertension does not appear to cause headache. Whether moderate hypertension predisposes patients to headache at all remains controversial, but there is little evidence that it does. Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in patients with mild and moderate hypertension has shown no convincing relationship b...

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) pose a significant global burden in both developed and developing countries. It is estimated that, by 2025, 41.7% of males and 38.7% of females in Sub-Saharan Africa will develop high blood pressure (HBP). This is particularly true in Uganda with hypertensive prevalence rates estimated to range from 22.5% to 30.5%. Coupled with low levels of detection, treatment,...

mirtazapine is a new antidepressant that can increase noradrenergic and serotonergic neurotransmission. it is also a postsynaptic antagonist of 5-ht2 and 5-ht3. in addition, it has only a weak affinity for 5-ht1 receptors and has very weak muscarinic anticholinergic and histamine (h1) antagonist properties. we report a case of hypertensive urgency that ensued after a patient took a single low d...

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.&#...

Arterial hypertension and chronic kidney disease are mutually interconnected. Uncontrolled arterial along with diabetes is one of the two most common causes end-stage disease. On other hand, disease, as well renal artery stenosis, results in development hypertension. Hypertensive crisis target-organ damage, also known a hypertensive emergency, serious complication which however becoming less fr...

Hypertensive crisis in children is relatively a rare condition and the prevalence currently unknown (1). The most common etiology of hypertensive secondary hypertension, while primary hypertension less (2)(5)(7). We performed case report 13 years old boy with caused by hypertension. He came to emergency unit our hospital due epistaxis, nausea, vomiting abdominal pain. On physical examination we...