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High Blood Pressure (Hypertension), (This is often called white coat hypertension.) Home or ambulatory monitoring of blood pressure may show that the blood pressure is normal when a ...
Hypertension in Childhood, Mercury and aneroid instruments have been increasingly replaced by electronic devices, although the auscultatory method remains gold standard. [ 6 , 7 ] W...
Hypertension in Pregnancy, Pre-eclampsia See the separate Pre-eclampsia and Eclampsia article . White coat hypertension The phenomenon of patients having high BP when s...
Hypertension, Masked hypertension - BP in surgery/clinic is less than 140/90 mm Hg but average ABPM or HBPM readings are higher. White coat effect - a discrepancy of m...
Studies have shown that increased blood pressure readings on ABPM are more strongly correlated to end-organ damage than one-off measurements - eg, left ventricular hypertrophy. [ 4 ] To detect ...
Hypertension Treatment, Consider ABPM or HBPM, in addition to clinic blood pressure measurements, for people with hypertension identified as having a white-coat eff...
If your blood pressure is high when you attend the clinic but normal when, for example, your midwife takes your blood pressure at home, this is called "white coat" hypertension. Se...
Variable factors within the same patient - white coat hypertension may reduce as patients become accustomed to having their blood pressure measured, which would increase the apparent place...
Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension, What is idiopathic intracranial hypertension? Intracranial hypertension means raised pressure inside the skull and around the brain....
Glaucoma and Ocular Hypertension (Assessment and Management), Assessments are the same for glaucoma patients and those with - or suspected to have - ocular hypertension (see 'Wha...
Portal Hypertension, Pulmonary complications: Portopulmonary hypertension (pulmonary arterial hypertension complicating portal hypertension in patients with li...
Pulmonary Hypertension, Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is an increase in mean pulmonary arterial pressure (PAP), which can be caused by or associated with a wide variety of conditions...
Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension, Synonyms: pseudotumour cerebri, benign intracranial hypertension What is idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH)? Raised ...
Diabetes and Hypertension (Treatment and Management), See also the Hypertension and Hypertension Treatment articles. Patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus have a con...
Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome, What is Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome? In Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome there is an extra connection (an accessory pathway) betwee...
This is known as white coat syndrome. If your blood pressure is raised, the doctor will not know if this is because of the stress of being in the surgery (white coat high blood press...
Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome, Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome is the most common of the ventricular pre-excitation syndromes. Others include Lown-Ganong-Levine syndrome and ...
In each test, the barium coats the lining of the gut being tested. Therefore, abnormalities in the lining or structure of the gut can be seen on the X-ray pictures.
They are associated with other medical conditions such as high blood pressure (hypertension) , d iabetes mellitus and coronary heart disease. If you have a bleeding disorder, such as ha...
The air expands the colon and also pushes the barium to coat the lining of the colon. This makes the X-ray pictures much clearer. It is the shape and contours of the lining of the colon which...