Ch 27 assessment And Management Of Patients With Hypertension

Question 1

Hypertensive emergency

Answer 1

An emergent situation in which blood pressure is severely elevated and there is evidence of actual or probable target organ damage

Question 2

Hypertensive urgency

Answer 2

An urgent situation in which blood pressure is severely elevated but there is no evidence of impending or progressive target organ damage

Question 3

Isolated systolic hypertension

Answer 3

A disorder most commonly seen in the older adult in which the systolic pressure is greater than 140 mmHg and the diastolic pressure is less than 80 mmHg

Question 4

Masked hypertension

Answer 4

Blood pressure that is typically suggestive of a diagnosis of hypertension that is paradoxically normal in healthcare settings

Question 5

Primary hypertension

Answer 5

High blood pressure with no identifiable cause, synonym essential hypertension

Question 6

Rebound hypertension

Answer 6

Blood pressure in a patient with hypertension that is controlled with medication and becomes abnormally high with the abrupt discontinuation of that medication

Question 7

Resistant hypertension

Answer 7

High blood pressure treated with three or more antihypertensive medications of different classes one of these must be a diuretic agent

Question 8

Secondary hypertension

Answer 8

High blood pressure from an identified cause such as chronic kidney disease

Question 9

Target organ damage

Answer 9

Manifestations of pathophysiologic changes in various organs as a consequence of hypertension

Question 10

White coat hypertension

Answer 10

Blood pressure that increases the hypertensive ratings in healthcare settings that is paradoxically within the normal range is in other settings