Postmortem surveys on patients treated for chronic hypertension often fail to demonstrate significant vessel changes. Nevertheless, hypertensive alterations in the brain can include infarcts and hemorrhages. Autopsies in a primary care hospital have shown that hypertension can affect arteries, arterioles, and capillaries in various patterns and degrees in the brain. These vascular lesions may b...

Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IVH) is a condition or heterogeneous group of vessels characterized by an increase in pressure (ICP) without signs mass formation, hydrocephalus, infection, venous thrombosis, and hypertensive encephalopathy. The term "pseudotumoral cerebral hypertension" used to describe the secondary origin ICP due various causes diagnosis exclusion. One risk factors for ...

INTRODUCTION Recent data suggest that mucosal abnormalities can occur even in the duodenum, jejunum, and distal ileum of cirrhosis patients. We present a case of portal hypertensive enteropathy in a cirrhosis patient shown by capsule endoscopy and the effect of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt on the ileal pictures. CASE PRESENTATION An 83-year-old Caucasian woman was admitted to...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Delayed cerebral ischemia associated with cerebral vasospasm is a common cause of secondary neurological decline after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Triple-H therapy, induced hypertension, hypervolemia, and hemodilution, is often used to treat cerebral vasospasm. However, hypertensive treatment may carry significant medical morbidity, including cardiopulmonary...

involvement, mainly in the right eye, with abundant exudation and intraretinal edema (Fig. 1A). Due to suspected acute hypertensive retinopathy caused by hypertensive crisis, arterial pressure (AP) was taken, 230/150 mmHg with similar values on several readings. The diagnostic of malign arterial hypertension in a patient without known antecedents caused the patient to be referred to internal me...

(1995) Treatment of bleeding from portal hypertensive gastropathy by portacaval shunt. Portal hypertensive gastropathy is a vascular disorder of the gastric mucosa distinguished by ectasia of the mucosal capillaries and submucosal veins without inflammation. During 1988 to 1993, 12 patients with biopsyproven cirrhosis (10 alcoholic, 2 posthepatitic) were evaluated and treated prospectively by p...

Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) are uncommon tumors of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Regorafenib is a new multikinase inhibitor and is approved for the treatment of GISTs in patients who develop resistance to imatinib and sunitinib. The most common drug-related adverse events with regorafenib are hypertension, hand-foot skin reactions, and diarrhea. Grade IV hypertensive side effect ...