ALLMedicine™ Malignant Hypertension Center

May 12th, 2022 - Urinary specific gravity (SG) is a measure of the concentration of solutes in the urine. It measures the ratio of urine density compared with water density and provides information on the kidney’s ability to concentrate urine. A urinary specific g...

Mar 16th, 2022 - Malignant hypertension is a hypertensive emergency, with rapid disease progression and poor prognosis. Although recognized as a separate entity more than a century ago, significant knowledge gaps remain about its pathogenesis and treatment. This n...

Mar 1st, 2022 - BACKGROUND Malignant hypertension (MHT), one of the severest forms of hypertension, can have deleterious effects on various organs, such as renal failure, retinopathy, and encephalopathy. These types of organ damage are common complications of MHT...

Feb 26th, 2022 - Undiagnosed malignant hypertension presenting as a direct spontaneous carotid-cavernous fistula with complete loss of vision and hyphaema.|2022|Gupta V,Luthra S,Puthalath AS,Chauhan U,|diagnosis,diagnostic imaging,complications,diagnosis,

Nov 16th, 2021 - The use of methamphetamines is growing worldwide with cardiovascular disease as the leading cause of mortality and morbidity. Long-term use of methamphetamines is associated with malignant hypertension, myocardial ischemia, pulmonary hypertension,...

Oct 16th, 2019 - Malignant hypertension is the most severe form of high blood pressure, fatal if left untreated. It has not disappeared, with an increasing incidence. Patients with the disease, mainly young (35 to 55 years of age), have an unfavorable cardiovascul...

Jun 6th, 2018 - In literature, Cupping therapy(CT) has been shown to be used mostly for pain control and the majority of RCT studies have shown that CT has potential benefits in pain conditions. Previous studies have reported the effect of pain mediator substance...

Dec 19th, 2016 - Study Population Our study included 100 patients referred to the Hypertension Clinic of Salerno Medical School Hospital in Salerno, with the first diagnosis of arterial hypertension and in the absence of a previous treatment. At the time of enroll...

Dec 24th, 2015 - BACKGROUND: While less frequent than in the era before effective treatment for hypertension, hypertensive emergency remains a relatively common cause of hospital admission in some sub-populations. In 1989, hypertensive emergency accounted for appr...

Apr 17th, 2013 - Eligibility criteria are men and women over 60 years old and available to participate in the study for 3 months with blood pressure higher than 140/90. Exclusion criteria are severe dementia, malignant hypertension, depression Outcome measures are...

Dec 20th, 2020 - Michael S. Ewer, MD Concerns about cardiotoxicity of molecularly targeted anticancer therapies may be overblown, according to Michael S. Ewer, MD, from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. Although molecularly targeted ag...

Jun 2nd, 2017 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Emergency department physicians should check certain patients for optic nerve head edema (ONHE) by fundus photography, researchers say. "The FOTO-ED study showed that non-mydriatic retinal photography in the emergency d...

Mar 13th, 2017 - Malignant hypertension and accelerated hypertension are both hypertensive emergencies, with similar outcomes and therapies. Accelerated hypertension is defined as a recent significant increase over baseline blood pressure that is associated with t...

Mar 13th, 2017 - Each week, we publish a new Fast Five Quiz focused on a specific clinical topic. We compiled the toughest questions into a cardiology challenge round. Tens of thousands of your colleagues answered, but less than half were able to correctly identif...

Mar 13th, 2017 - Malignant hypertension and accelerated hypertension are both hypertensive emergencies, with similar outcomes and therapies. Accelerated hypertension is defined as a recent significant increase over baseline blood pressure that is associated with t...