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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…

Preeclampsia and Hypertensive Pregnancy Disorders as Future Cardiovascular Risk

…obesity. Gestational hypertension is defined in the supplied guideline material as blood pressure 140/90 mmHg on two separate occasions after 20 weeks of gestation…

Cardiac arrest during pregnancy and childbirth

…in the supine position in a cardiac arrest. For women beyond the 20 th week of pregnancy, or when the fundal height surpasses the umbilicus…

Care after return of spontaneous circulation (ROSC)

…persist for hours, days and weeks. It reduces cardiac output and lower blood pressure. Cardiogenic shock may develop as a result of stunning. The systemic…

Short Synacthen test

…Follow up of known HPA suppression to determine whether replacement can be stopped. The test is not the first line investigation in a suspected acute…

Dietary Patterns and Cardiovascular Outcomes

Cardiology Clinical medicine Definition and Pathophysiology Dietary patterns are the overall combinations of foods habitually consumed rather than isolated nutrients considered independently. For cardiometabolic health…

Post-Infarction Mechanical Complications: Ventricular Septal, Free-Wall, and Papillary Muscle Rupture

…late as 2 weeks after infarction. Predisposing features Risk features vary by lesion but include: Older age. Female sex. Hypertension. Absence of an adequate collateral…

Soft tissue corticosteroid injection

…documented but increase the risk of skin and fat atrophy. Lederspan states in addition that the dosing interval should not be shorter than four weeks …

Post-Infarction Pericarditis and Dressler Syndrome

…interval of several weeks, improvement with anti inflammatory treatment, and the tendency to recur all support an immunopathological mechanism. The precise cause, however, is not…

Cardiac troponin I (TnI) and T (TnT): Interpretation and evaluation in acute coronary syndromes

…up to 2 weeks after a heart attack. The larger the infarction, the higher the troponin level and the longer the duration of elevated troponin…

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