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Descriptor English: Hypertensive Encephalopathy
Descriptor Spanish: Encefalopatía Hipertensiva
Descriptor encefalopatía hipertensiva
Scope note: Disfunción o daño cerebral que se produce por HIPERTENSIÓN MALIGNA, asociada generalmente con una presión sanguínea diastólica superior a 125 mm Hg. Las manifestaciones clínicas incluyen cefalea, náusea, vómitoss, convulsiones, estado mental alterado (en algunos casos progresan hasta el COMA), PAPILEDEMA y HEMORRAGIA RETINIANA.
Descriptor Portuguese: Encefalopatia Hipertensiva
Descriptor French: Encéphalopathie hypertensive
Entry term(s): Encephalopathy, Hypertensive
Tree number(s): C10.228.140.631.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D020343
Scope note: Brain dysfunction or damage resulting from sustained MALIGNANT HYPERTENSION. When BLOOD PRESSURE exceeds the limits of cerebral autoregulation, cerebral blood flow is impaired (BRAIN ISCHEMIA). Clinical manifestations include HEADACHE; NAUSEA; VOMITING; SEIZURES; altered mental status (in some cases progressing to COMA); PAPILLEDEMA; and RETINAL HEMORRHAGE.
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Previous Indexing: Hypertension/complications (1966-1999)
Public MeSH Note: 2000
History Note: 2000
Entry Version: HYPERTENSIVE ENCEPH
Related: Hypertension, Malignant MeSH
DeCS ID: 34284
Unique ID: D020343
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Date Established: 2000/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/11/03
Revision Date: 2007/07/09
Hypertensive Encephalopathy - Preferred
Concept UI M0328335
Scope note Brain dysfunction or damage resulting from sustained MALIGNANT HYPERTENSION. When BLOOD PRESSURE exceeds the limits of cerebral autoregulation, cerebral blood flow is impaired (BRAIN ISCHEMIA). Clinical manifestations include HEADACHE; NAUSEA; VOMITING; SEIZURES; altered mental status (in some cases progressing to COMA); PAPILLEDEMA; and RETINAL HEMORRHAGE.
Preferred term Hypertensive Encephalopathy
Entry term(s) Encephalopathy, Hypertensive



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