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Managing hypertensive emergencies and urgencies in the geriatric patient
1Department of Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH.
Abstract:
The aging cardiovascular and renal systems put the elderly patient at increased risk of end-organ damage from marked hypertension. Thus, the office-based physician needs to be skilled in making the diagnosis of a hypertensive urgency or emergency based on accurate blood pressure readings and an assessment of the heart, brain, retina, and kidney. Hypertension urgency and emergency are distinguished from each other by the clinical decision of how quickly the blood pressure must be lowered. The clinician has a wide variety of agents from which to choose for pharmacologic treatment, with the goal being a smooth and safe reduction in blood pressure.
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