DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
DOCTORS'
Medical Case Studies
High blood pressure
Hypertension
Hypertension (HTN) or high blood pressure is a cardiac chronic medical condition in which the systemic arterial blood pressure is elevated. It is the opposite of hypotension. Hypertension is classified as either primary (essential) hypertension or secondary hypertension; About 90–95% of cases are categorized as "primary hypertension," which means high blood pressure with no obvious medical cause. The remaining 5–10% of cases are caused by other conditions that affect the kidneys, arteries, heart or endocrine system. Persistent hypertension is one of the risk factors for stroke, myocardial infarction, heart failure and arterial aneurysm, and is a leading cause of chronic kidney failure...
High blood pressure - List of case studies
- Valvular Heart Disease in Dissection of the Ascendant Aorta and Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
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and dilated ascending aorta the risk of surgery is quite high . 2. Regarding the ascending aorta : I do not think that ... 4. The patient needs good medical treatment for high blood pressure including ACE inhibitors and Beta blockers because of his ...
- Left Ventricular Dysfunction and Aortic Stenosis
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(AS) based on aortic valve area of 0.5 cm² and high trans-valvular gradients 74/52 mmHg. On the second echocardiogram ... AS (not mild) and is depend also on cardiac output and blood pressure during measurements. There is also a phenomenon called low ...
- List of Symptoms
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pains in arms A Abdominal colics of (high intensity) Abdominal mass Abdominal pain Abdominal pains ... procedure (FNA) Blink reflex Bloating Blood clot Blurriness of vision Blurry vision Bothering cough ...
- List of Examinations
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techniques 1 18F-fluoride PET scan 24 hour blood pressure monitoring 24-hour blood pressure recording 24-hour ... Hepatological consult Hexoseaminidase A High quality MRI (thin cuts through the orbits) High quality imaging ...
- Degenerative Maculopathy - additional opinion
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opinion, she suffers from Non- Neovascular AMD with high risk characteristics to transform to the Neovascular form, and therefore ... leakage which could suggest the existence of pathological blood vessels in the form of choroidal neovascularization (CNV) namely ...
- Multiple myeloma with renal involvement, bone lesions and Neuropathy
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cycle of Dex 40 mg/die was given for 4 days; thereafter a high temperature was measured with bronchopneumonial foci; the patient was ... creatinine, azotemia, uricemy, calcemy, potassiemia, blood protein electrophoresis, counts for immunoglobulins, transaminase, ...
- Chronic Lymphocytic Thyroiditis (Hashimoto thyroiditis)
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on the hands. Therefore, in those days, routine blood tests were carried out with the only finding of a TSH increase ... (2.00 – 4.40) Taking into consideration the high TSH level, the patient decided to resume, in complete independence, ...
- Severe right coronary artery stenosis
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there was emotional stress. His coronary CT showed Severe high level stenosis with wall irregularities of the right coronary artery. The ... inferior ST and V6 abnormalities , and an initial blood test for necrosis markers was negative. The patient left the ...
- Demyelinizing Disease
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- IgG index = 0.8. Tourtellotte’s formula 5.9. Later blood tests have revealed a hypothyroidism condition due to thyroiditis , ... to give the patient pulse therapy with intra venous high dose steroids - 1 gram of methylprednisolne per day for 5 consecutive ...
- Treatments
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supports Arhroscopic surgery Arm A (IFN with high intensified doses) Aromatase inhibitor Arthroeresis technique ... Artificial sphincter implantation Aspiration of blood serum from the nodule (cyst aspiration) Assisted hatching ...