Why the study?
The clinical profile of patients presenting with hypertensive emergencies to hospitals in developing countries is unknown.
Population
Fifty patients admitted with severely elevated blood pressure and evidence of acute target organ damage
Design
Six-month hospital-based prospective study
Authors
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May guide local suspicion for ICH among known hypertensives; leaves open whether this profile extends beyond a small single-center cohort.
In patients presenting with hypertensive emergencies, the most common target organ damage is intracerebral hemorrhage, which is associated with a high in-hospital mortality rate of 22%.
Reddy et al. (2022) studied this question.
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