Open AccessPulsed and Tissue Doppler Echocardiographic Changes in Hypertensive Crisis with and without End Organ Damage
Author(s) -
Taysir Garadah,
Salah Kassab,
Saleh Gabani,
Ahmed S. Abutaleb,
Ahmed Abdelatif,
Aysha Asef,
Issa Shoroqi,
Anwer Jamsheer
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
open journal of cardiovascular surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1179-0652
DOI - 10.4137/ojcs.s8094
Subject(s) - cardiology , end organ damage , medicine , doppler effect , blood pressure , physics , astronomy
Hypertensive crisis (HC) is a common medical emergency associated with acute rise in arterial blood pressure that leads to end-organ damage (EOD). Therefore, it is imperative to find markers that may help in the prediction of EOD in acute hypertensive crisis.
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