Hypertensive crisis in young woman with Takayasu arteritis

Internal Medicine

Volumn 50, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 1963-1967

  Ogawa, Osamu ^a   Watanabe, Ritsuo ^a   Shimizu, Hiroshi ^a   Masani, Fumiaki ^a  

^a Niigata Prefectural Central Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hypertensive crisis; Hypertensive encephalopathy; Renovascular hypertension; Reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome; Takayasu arteritis

Indexed keywords

ALDOSTERONE; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; IODINATED CONTRAST MEDIUM; NICARDIPINE; PREDNISOLONE;

ACUTE BRAIN DISEASE; ADULT; ALDOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID EXAMINATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVULSION; ECHOGRAPHY; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; FEVER; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEADACHE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION ENCEPHALOPATHY; HYPERTENSION RETINOPATHY; HYPERTENSIVE CRISIS; KIDNEY ARTERY STENOSIS; KIDNEY SURGERY; LEUKOENCEPHALOPATHY; LONG TERM CARE; NAUSEA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PLASMA RENIN ACTIVITY; RASH; RENOVASCULAR HYPERTENSION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

ANGIOPLASTY; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, RENOVASCULAR; HYPERTENSIVE ENCEPHALOPATHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RENAL ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; TAKAYASU ARTERITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052859675     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.50.5572     Document Type: Article

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