GuidelineEuropean heart journal. Cardiovascular pharmacotherapy2019
ESC Council on hypertension position document on the management of hypertensive emergencies.
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- Executive Summary of the 2024 Philippine Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Management of Acute Severe Blood Pressure Elevation.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2026Guideline
- Current guidelines in hypertension management with special focus on management of extremely high blood pressure: a systematic review.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2025Pooled it
- [Integrated Care Protocol: Hypertension].Revista medica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social · 2022Guideline
- Modern Management of Hypertensive Emergencies.High blood pressure & cardiovascular prevention : the official journal of the Italian Society of Hypertension · 2022Pooled it
- Peripartum management of hypertension: a position paper of the ESC Council on Hypertension and the European Society of Hypertension.European heart journal. Cardiovascular pharmacotherapy · 2020Guideline
- Review
- Prevalence, clinical features and emergency department blood pressure management of hypertensive emergencies and uncontrolled hypertension: a retrospective multi-centre study.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2026Article
- The Role of the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone System in Hypertensive Emergencies.Biomedicines · 2026Review
- Hypertensive retinopathy in Dutch emergency departments: a multicenter retrospective cohort analysis.Internal and emergency medicine · 2026Article
- Sex-specific differences in clinical characteristics and organ damage in Hypertensive Urgencies.Internal and emergency medicine · 2026Observational
- "Short-term prognosis of hypertensive emergencies and urgencies: second preliminary report of the ongoing Italian multicenter ERIDANO study".Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2026Article
- Lipoprotein(a) in Essential Hypertension: Associations with Blood Pressure and Hypertension-Mediated Organ Damage.High blood pressure & cardiovascular prevention : the official journal of the Italian Society of Hypertension · 2026Observational
- Extreme Malignant Hypertension Resulting in Dialysis-Dependent Hypertensive Nephrosclerosis.JACC. Case reports · 2026Article
- Psychological Burden in Uncontrolled Hypertension: Findings from the ERIDANO Multicenter Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Multimodal, device-based therapeutic targeting of the cardiovascular autonomic nervous system.Nature reviews. Cardiology · 2026Review
- Treatment of Hypertensive Crisis in Primary Care Health Facilities in Peru, 2019-2024.High blood pressure & cardiovascular prevention : the official journal of the Italian Society of Hypertension · 2026Article
- Hypertensive Emergency in the Context of SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Clinical Course and Management.Case reports in cardiology · 2026Article
- Smartphone ophthalmoscopy for assessment of hypertensive retinopathy in suspected hypertensive emergency: a pilot study.Clinical hypertension · 2026Article
- The causal relationship in hypertensive encephalopathy: mechanistic analysis of five specific circulating cytokines.Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) · 2026Article
- The Japanese Society of Hypertension Guidelines for the management of elevated blood pressure and hypertension 2025 (JSH2025).Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2026Article
50 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
- Erratum issued
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14 authors at 11 institutions in 10 countries.
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Abstract
Hypertensive emergencies are those situations where very high blood pressure (BP) values are associated with acute organ damage, and therefore, require immediate, but careful, BP reduction. The type of acute organ damage is the principal determinant of: (i) the drug of choice, (ii) the target BP, and (iii) the timeframe in which BP should be lowered. Key target organs are the heart, retina, brain, kidneys, and large arteries. Patients who lack acute hypertension-mediated end organ damage do not have a hypertensive emergency and can usually be treated with oral BP-lowering agents and usually discharged after a brief period of observation.
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