General Internal Medicine

Hypertension

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How do you approach long-term blood pressure parameters in ischemic stroke patients with severe symptomatic intracranial stenosis?

How do you balance between having a higher long-term blood pressure to prevent flow failure and leading to worsening of stenosis or occlusion from the...

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Are there instances when you would recommend against pursuing adrenal vein sampling in a patient with primary hyperaldosteronism and normal adrenal imaging?

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Would you treat an ESKD patient with renal artery stenosis in an attempt to improve blood pressure control and preserve residual renal function?

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What is your preferred initial imaging choice for a patient suspected of having renal artery stenosis who does not have any contraindications to imaging contrast media?

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What is the approach to use of ACE inhibitors for suspected scleroderma renal crisis in patients with only mildly elevated BP and renal artery stenosis?

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What is your approach to managing patients with labile blood pressures secondary to baroreflex failure?

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Which medications do you deem necessary to stop prior to measuring plasma renin and plasma aldosterone when evaluating a patient for possible primary aldosteronism?

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Is there a role for vascular intervention in patients with renal artery stenosis found during work up of resistant hypertension?

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What is your preferred method for confirming the diagnosis of primary aldosteronism in a patient with an elevated plasma aldosterone to renin ratio?

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Papers discussed in this category

The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism, 2016-05

The Management of Primary Aldosteronism: Case Detection, Diagnosis, and Treatment: An Endocrine Society Clinical Practice Guideline.

The New England journal of medicine, 2014-01-02

Stenting and medical therapy for atherosclerotic renal-artery stenosis.

Annals of internal medicine, 2009 May 04

Stent placement in patients with atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis and impaired renal function: a randomized trial.

The New England journal of medicine, 2009 Nov 12

Revascularization versus medical therapy for renal-artery stenosis.

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