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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.
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- Encephalopathy, Hypertensive
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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, congenital, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.
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2000
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- Hypertension/complications (1966-1999)
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- National Library of Medicine. Hypertensive Encephalopathy. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D020343. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D020343
- Hypertensive Encephalopathy. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertensive_encephalopathy
- Hypertensive Encephalopathy. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4138746