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Tag: Hypertension

  • Hypertension of pregnancy

    Hypertension of pregnancy

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    Dr. Taoufik

    Introduction: Hypertension complicates about 8% of pregnancies in developed countries, significantly more in some areas. For a quarter of these young women, it is pre-eclampsia, the severity of which can be extreme. Hypertension in pregnancy is thus the leading cause of fetal death, and the second or third leading cause of maternal mortality worldwide. The mechanisms responsible…

  • Pregnancy hypertension

    Pregnancy hypertension

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    Dr. Taoufik

    Introduction: Gravitational hypertension is a group of conditions whose nature and mechanisms remain imperfectly classified. This situation affects 10 to 15% of pregnant women, which is considerable. It also represents, in our climate, the leading cause of perinatal morbidity and mortality. “Illness of Hypotheses”, preeclampsia was also a “disease of dogmas” and many successive and contradictory…

  • Essential arterial hypertension

    Essential arterial hypertension

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    Dr. Taoufik

    INTRODUCTION: High blood pressure (HTA) is a particularly high frequency condition. Its satellite is a major increase in cardiovascular risk, which should be remembered as the leading cause of death in our country. These considerations underline the major public health problem of this pathology, and also its heavy financial implications, which sometimes alter the scientific quality…

  • Hypertension

    Hypertension

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    Dr. Taoufik

    Warning: • Hypertension is almost never a therapeutic emergency (true emergencies are left ventricular failure, hypertensive encephalopathy, aortic dissection, hypertensive retinopathy, eclampsia). • Diagnosis is based on the recognition, at least 3 visits over a period of 3 to 6 months, greater than or equal to 140 numbers and / or 90 mmHg. • In…

  • Intracranial hypertension

    Intracranial hypertension

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    Dr. Taoufik

    – In a person at rest and supine intracranial pressure is normally 10 mmHg (10 cm H2O). It is equal to the hydrostatic pressure of the CSF. – Intracranial pressure (intracranial hypertension) is defined by numbers greater than 15 mmHg. – Cerebral edema of various types: vasogenic (by increasing capillary permeability); cytotoxic (ballooning injury and…

  • Hypertension (HT)

    Hypertension (HT)

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    Dr. Taoufik

    – The essential hypertension of an adult is defined as a blood pressure (BP) of greater than or equal to 160 mm Hg for systolic and / or greater than or equal to 90 mm ​​Hg for diastolic. The elevation must be permanent: Measure 2 times at rest during 3 consecutive consultations over a period…

  • High blood pressure (Hypertension)

    High blood pressure (Hypertension)

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    Dr. Taoufik

    High blood pressure (hypertension) affects approximately 25% of the world population and its prevalence is expected to increase by 60% by 2025, an estimated 1.5 billion people affected in total. Hypertension is a major cardiovascular risk factor and is responsible for most deaths in the world. The essential or idiopathic hypertension is responsible for at…

  • Plasma Aldosterone

    Plasma Aldosterone

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    Dr. Taoufik

    Secreted by the adrenal cortex, aldosterone acts on the distal convoluted tube and causes reabsorption of sodium, potassium excretion and H + ions. Its secretion is dependent on the renin-angiotensin system. Its dosage is coupled to that of renin. It is sometimes called “hormone of hypertension” and it is in this capacity that is measured.…

  • Smoking

    Smoking

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    Dr. Taoufik
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    * The cancer increases by 10 the risk of lung cancer; beyond 30 PA risk is 50 times than in non-smoking * This is the major factor in the development of COPD. End-stage parenchymal destruction responsible centrilobular emphysema. * The death rate from coronary heart disease is 15 times higher in smokers than in nonsmokers…