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Renal Artery Stenosis: Is It Common & Life Threatening?

Vascular Physician

As a result, your kidneys may not be able to properly function, which can lead to other serious health complications. Taking medications: Diuretics, angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, beta-blockers, and other medications may help manage your blood pressure as well as other conditions contributing to RAS, such as atherosclerosis.

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Lupus Emergencies in Children and Adolescents

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In pediatric patients, complications can evolve rapidly and carry significant morbidity and mortality. Renal Disease (Lupus Nephritis) Signs & Symptoms: Children may present with new-onset hypertension, edema, or decreased urine output. DVT symptoms or syncope may precede PE diagnosis.

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Leriche Syndrome

Vascular Physician

In fact, sexual dysfunction is so often associated with Leriche Syndrome that the absence of this symptom suggests that another diagnosis should be considered. Atherosclerosis is potentiated by hypertension, smoking, lower physical activity, obesity, a diet high in saturated fats, and high glucose or lipid levels.

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Prevention of Dementia: Kristine Yaffe

GeriPal

Then I went to medical school and I thought, “Well, should I go into psych? A lot of these are more vascular risk factors: hypertension, certainly; diabetes; obesity. Eric: Going to some specifics, let’s go into vascular risk factors like hypertension. Should I do neuro? Should do medicine?”

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Under Pressure: Hypertensive Emergencies in the Pediatric Emergency Department

PEMBlog

All kids with hypertensive emergency need ICU-level care. Before your blood pressure rises as well, know that this PEMBlog article is here to provide an overview of the recognition and management of hypertensive emergencies. These neurological manifestations suggest hypertensive encephalopathy, a form of end-organ damage.

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Popliteal Artery Aneurysms

Vascular Physician

Consequently, screening for additional aneurysms upon diagnosis is highly recommended. Risk factors associated with PAA include: - smoking - male sex - hypertension - increased age - high cholesterol Potential Complications: As noted above, complications of PAA can be severe.

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Managing Urinary Symptoms and UTI’s in Older Adults

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We discuss with her how we should work-up and manage “urinary tract infections” (I’ve added air quotes to “UTI” in honor of Tom Finucane’s JAGS article titled “Urinary Tract Infection”—Requiem for a Heavyweight in which he advocated to put air quotes around the term UTI due to the ambiguity of the diagnosis.). Scott: Sure. Thanks Eric.