Hypertension Blog

If your patient reports any warning signs of hypertension, suspect urgent hypertension. He may experience a mild headache in the occipital area that’s more severe in the morning. He also may experience dizziness, light-headedness, numbness, weakness, and vision changes. These cerebrovascular signs and symptoms may result from hypertension alone or from hypertension and atherosclerosis. He also may report nosebleeds, which occur as a natural safety mechanism to relieve severe hypertension and prevent cerebral hemorrhage.Your patient with urgent hypertension may experience chest pain, palpitations, dyspnea, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea, orthopnea, and edema. These cardiovascular signs and symptoms may develop when his hypertension results from coronary artery disease.Renal signs and symptoms of urgent hypertension include nocturia, polyuria, hematuria, urinary tract infection,· excessive urinary sediment, fatigue, weakness, and muscle cramps. However, these signs and symptoms also may result from kidney damage. If a patient has kidney damage, his condition has worsened from urgent hypertension to emergency hypertension.