AIM The aim of the study was to evaluate efficiency of hypertensive urgency treatment using inhibitors of α1-adrenergic receptors and angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors-ACE inhibitors in the Emergency Room of Outpatient Hospital and Polyclinic "dr Mustafa Šehovic" Tuzla in relation to age, duration and severity of hypertension. METHODS The study was conducted from June 2011 to May 2012 ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The main anesthesiologist's task is to ensure appropriate oxygenation of patient. The objective of this report is to describe both diagnosis and behavior in case of acute respiratory failure during anesthesia, with educational purposes. CASE REPORT Three-year-old child underwent anesthesia for urologic surgery presented respiratory failure by bronchial obstruction by...

Hypertensive urgency can be expressed as a systolic blood pressure of at least 180 mmHg and/or diastolic 110 mmHg, without correlated end-organ damage. Elevated causes endothelial injury by elevating the permeability and local activation clotting cascade (platelet fibrin deposition), resulting in fibrinoid necrosis intimal proliferation. In hypertensive urgencies, should lowered over period hrs...

We reported a case report of 50-year-old woman with stroke hemorrhage due to subarachnoid hypertensive urgency, left ventricular hypertrophy, and dyslipidemia. Subarachnoid indicates the presence blood in space between pia mater arachnoid which usually results from ruptured cerebral aneurysm or arteriovenous malformation. The patient presents decreased consciousness preceded by severe headache ...

Hypertension is a common chronic medical condition affecting over 65 million Americans. Uncontrolled hypertension can progress to a hypertensive crisis defined as a systolic blood pressure >180 mm Hg or a diastolic blood pressure >120 mm Hg. Hypertensive crisis can be further classified as a hypertensive urgency or hypertensive emergency depending on end-organ involvement including cardiac, ren...

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...