Abstract

RODRIGUEZ ACOSTA, Regino; BETANCOURT ARNIELLA, Jorge; XAVIER MOREY, Francis  and  NICOLAU MENA, Orlando. Malignant arterial hypertension behavior in a quinquennium. AMC [online]. 2002, vol.6, n.3, pp. 261-268. ISSN 1025-0255.

A descriptive study was performed for characterizingg malignant arterial hypertensión at Manuel Ascunce Domenech, during a que quinquenium. The study universe raised to 38 nursed whose data were processed in a PC using MICROSTAT program. Men represented 65, 7 % of the universe, the main age group was 48 to 67 years in which 50 % was located. Hyperuricemia, diabetes mellitus, hyperliproteinemia and ischemic cardiopathy were the most frequent personal antecendents; in 55, 3 % prevailed severe hypertension, mediating a period from 6 to 10 years (44, 7 %) for the diagnosis of malignant hypertension . The main lesions of target organs were renal failure, microproteinuria, atherotrombotic cerebral infarction, transient ischemic stroke, letf ventricular hypertrophy and cardiac infartion.

Keywords : MALIGNANT HYPERTENSION [epidemiology].

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