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Preeclampsia and Hypertensive Pregnancy Disorders as Future Cardiovascular Risk

…or transaminases, and thrombocytopenia—is generally regarded as a severe preeclamptic phenotype or variant. Pathophysiology The precise mechanism of preeclampsia remains incompletely established. Proposed contributors…

Hypertensive crisis: drugs and doses

…acute kidney injury, microangiopathic haemolysis, and severe pre eclampsia or eclampsia. The blood pressure is often at least 180/120 mmHg, but no absolute threshold…

Hypertensive crisis: quick reference for acute blood pressure lowering

…Pregnancy, gestational week and recent delivery. Pre eclampsia can present postpartum. Known hypertension and current antihypertensive treatment. Missed doses or abrupt withdrawal of a beta…

Pre-test Probability and Selection of Non-invasive Testing in Stable Angina

…This pre test probability is the clinician’s estimate of the probability that the patient has anatomically obstructive CAD before the result of a new…

Hypertensive Emergency and Urgency: Differentiation and Treatment

…Associated complications may include encephalopathy, acute heart failure, disseminated intravascular coagulation, and abrupt deterioration in renal function. By contrast, hypertensive urgency describes severe hypertension without…

ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction Complicated by Cardiogenic Shock

…causes such as severe pre existing valvular disease or excessive beta blocker or calcium channel blocker exposure. The incidence of cardiogenic shock complicating STEMI has…

Exercise stress test on cycle ergometer

…Preoperative functional assessment before major surgery. At a low pre test probability most positive results are false positives; at a high probability a negative test…

🟠 Clevidipine

…MAP) by decreasing systemic vascular resistance (SVR). Clevidipine does not reduce cardiac filling pressure (pre load), since it has no effects on the venous capacitance…

ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: Diagnosis and ECG Criteria

…while cardiomyocyte swelling, interstitial oedema and tissue inflammation produce extravascular compression. In the most severe form, termed no reflow, structural and functional microvascular impairment persists…

Statin Intolerance and Statin-Associated Muscle Symptoms

…and elevated CK. Rhabdomyolysis is a rare, severe form of muscle injury. The biological basis of many reported muscle symptoms remains uncertain. Randomized trials have…

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