Hypertension

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• Synonyms

  • Systemic hypertension
  • High blood pressure
  • High BP
  • HT

• Causes

  • Essential hypertension
  • Fluid overload
  • High cardiac output state
  • Increased vascular tone
  • Thyrotoxicosis
  • Acromegaly
  • Adult polycystic kidney disease
  • Paroxysmal Hypertension
  • Pregnancy
  • Coarctation of the aorta
  • Alcohol
  • Raised intracranial pressure
  • Polyarteritis nodosa
  • Oral contraceptive pill
  • Acute intermittent porphyria
  • Hypothyroidism
  • IgA nephropathy
  • Cyclosporin
  • Hyperaldosteronism
  • Obesity
  • Retroperitoneal fibrosis
  • Corticosteroid
  • Pre-eclampsia

• Effects

  • Clouding of vision
  • Hypertensive retinopathy
  • Left ventricular failure
  • Heaving apex
  • Aortic regurgitation
  • Left bundle branch block
  • Atrial fibrillation
  • Loud A2
  • Myocardial ischaemia
  • Renal failure
  • Aortic aneurysm
  • Left ventricular hypertrophy
  • Retinal vein occlusion
  • Atherosclerosis
  • Renal arteriosclerosis
  • White matter vascular disease
  • Vascular dementia
  • Left atrial hypertrophy
  • Chronic renal failure
  • Pre-eclampsia
  • Abruptio placentae
  • Uterine fibroid
  • Epistaxis
  • Subconjunctival haemorrhage
  • Chronic headache

• Parents

  • Blood pressure sign

• Children

  • Malignant hypertension

• Treatments

  • Weight loss