Resumen
Objective: To determine the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of patients with hypertensive crisis treated in the emergency department of an institution of high complexity between 2014 and 2015.
Methods: A cross-sectional study involving patients older than 18 years who attended to the emergency department during the study period, diagnosed with any hypertensive disorder according to CIE-10; a sampling was not carried out. The analysis was performed using the SPSS vr.24 program, for quantitative variables with normal distribution, mean and standard deviation were calculated; for qualitative variables, absolute and relative frequencies were estimated.
Results: 156 patients were included, with a mean age of 63 years, 73,7% were women. On admission, the most reported symptoms were headache 59%, dizziness 38,5%. About the type of hypertensive crisis 22,4% had hypertensive emergency and 77,6% presented hypertensive urgency. 61,5% were admitted and managed mainly with angiotensin enzyme inhibitors in 25%. The ischemic stroke was the main target organ compromise in the hypertensive emergency, in 31,4% and 4 patients died in total 11,4%.
Conclusion: hypertensive urgency occurred more frequently in the study population, but emergencies had worse outcomes.
Methods: A cross-sectional study involving patients older than 18 years who attended to the emergency department during the study period, diagnosed with any hypertensive disorder according to CIE-10; a sampling was not carried out. The analysis was performed using the SPSS vr.24 program, for quantitative variables with normal distribution, mean and standard deviation were calculated; for qualitative variables, absolute and relative frequencies were estimated.
Results: 156 patients were included, with a mean age of 63 years, 73,7% were women. On admission, the most reported symptoms were headache 59%, dizziness 38,5%. About the type of hypertensive crisis 22,4% had hypertensive emergency and 77,6% presented hypertensive urgency. 61,5% were admitted and managed mainly with angiotensin enzyme inhibitors in 25%. The ischemic stroke was the main target organ compromise in the hypertensive emergency, in 31,4% and 4 patients died in total 11,4%.
Conclusion: hypertensive urgency occurred more frequently in the study population, but emergencies had worse outcomes.
| Título traducido de la contribución | Características clínicas y epidemiológicas de pacientes con crisis hipertensivas atendidos en el servicio de urgencias de una institución de alto nivel de complejidad, Medellín, Colombia 2014-2015 |
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| Idioma original | Inglés |
| Páginas (desde-hasta) | 330-334 |
| Número de páginas | 5 |
| Publicación | Revista Latinoamericana de Hipertension |
| Volumen | 13 |
| N.º | 4 |
| Estado | Publicada - 1 ene. 2018 |
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Palabras clave
- Arterial pressure
- Emergencies
- Headache
- Hypertension
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