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Post-Infarction Pericarditis and Dressler Syndrome

…Clinical presentation and symptoms The characteristic clinical syndrome consists of: Malaise Fever Pericardial or chest discomfort Leukocytosis Elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate Pericardial effusion Pericardial pain…

Secondary Hypertension: When and How to Investigate

…elevated blood pressure Other cardiovascular risk factors and relevant comorbidities Evidence of hypertension mediated organ damage Existing cardiac, cerebrovascular, or renal disease The possibility of…

Familial Hypercholesterolaemia: Diagnosis, Cascade Screening and Treatment

…disorder characterized by persistently elevated plasma low density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL C) from early life and a consequent excess risk of premature atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease…

Metabolic Syndrome: Definition and Clinical Significance

…dyslipidaemia, elevated blood pressure and impaired glucose regulation. Diagnosis is based on the coexistence of defined clinical and laboratory components; the diagnostic criteria themselves are…

🟠 Hypertensive emergency (crisis) - Drugs, doses & management

…blood pressure by inhibiting ACE. Effects • The hypotensive effect of enalaprilat depends on plasma volume and plasma renin activity. Volume depletion and high plasma renin

Diuretic Strategy and Decongestion in Heart Failure

…requirements unless filling pressures are elevated. Consequently, congestion may occur across the full range of left ventricular ejection fraction and may result from systolic dysfunction…

Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction: Diagnosis and Treatment

…blood at a rate appropriate to tissue requirements unless filling pressures are elevated. The syndrome is therefore defined by symptoms and signs of congestion or…

Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)

…at the expense of pathologically elevated filling pressures. Epidemiology and risk factors HFpEF has reached epidemic proportions, now accounting for over 50% of all incident…

Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrEF)

…cardiovascular societies, defines HF as a clinical syndrome corroborated by elevated natriuretic peptide levels and/or objective evidence of pulmonary or systemic congestion [3] . Within…

Hypertensive emergency (crisis)

…blood pressure by inhibiting ACE. Effects • The hypotensive effect of enalaprilat depends on plasma volume and plasma renin activity. Volume depletion and high plasma renin

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