Increased Blood Pressure Without Evidence of Acute End Organ Damage

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 51, Issue 3 SUPPL. 1, 2008, Pages

  Slovis, Corey M ^a   Reddi, Alluru S ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE ANTAGONIST; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ANGIONEUROTIC EDEMA; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE THERAPY; AORTA DISSECTION; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BRADYCARDIA; BRONCHOSPASM; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONSENSUS; CONSTIPATION; COUGHING; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDITORIAL; EMERGENCY WARD; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FETUS DISEASE; FOLLOW UP; GYNECOMASTIA; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERCALCEMIA; HYPERGLYCEMIA; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTENSION ENCEPHALOPATHY; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOMAGNESEMIA; HYPONATREMIA; LEG EDEMA; MYOPATHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; UREMIA;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION;

EID: 39149089953     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2007.11.005     Document Type: Editorial

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