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Thursday, October, 29, 2009

Treatment For Hypertension

Health Encyclopedia: Hypertensive Retinopathy

Treatment

Control of high blood pressure (hypertension) is the only treatment for hypertensive retinopathy.


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Expectations (prognosis)

Patients with grade IV (severe hypertensive retinopathy) frequently also have heart and kidney complications of high blood pressure. The retina will generally recover well if the blood pressure is controlled, but some patients with grade IV hypertensive retinopathy will have permanent damage to the optic nerve or macula.

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Expert & Community Posts

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Common Hypertension Complications
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High blood pressure has been related to salt intake for over two thousand years. Chinese... Read more »

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Health Guide

Have you or a loved one just been diagnosed with high blood pressure?
If you have high blood pressure, also called hypertension, it means that you have elevated levels of pressure of blood in your arteries. Prolonged periods of high blood pressure can cause serious... Read more »
Malignant hypertension (arteriolar nephrosclerosis)
...Hypertension - malignant Treatment Hospitalization is essential until the severe high blood pressure is under control. Medications delivered through an IV line, such as... Read more »
Pheochromocytoma
...are removed with surgery, less than 50% of patients are alive after 5 years. Complications High blood pressure may not be cured in 25% of patients after surgery, yet control is usually... Read more »
Hypertension
High blood pressure Treatment The goal of treatment is to reduce blood pressure to a level where there is decreased risk of complications. Treatment may... Read more »
Primary pulmonary hypertension
Pulmonary arterial hypertension; Sporadic primary pulmonary hypertension; Familial primary pulmonary hypertension Treatment There is no known... Read more »

Medications

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...ORALPronounced: (low-SAR-tan)Uses This drug is used to treat high blood pressure ... Read more »

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...is used alone or with other medications to treat high blood pressure (hypertension) and to... Read more »

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...medications called ACE inhibitors. It is used to treat high blood pressure (hypertension).... Read more »

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...medications called ACE inhibitors. It is used to treat high blood pressure (hypertension) in... Read more »

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...medications called ACE inhibitors. It is used to treat high blood pressure (hypertension). It... Read more »

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