Isolated Left Bundle Branch Block in a Toddler by Hitesh Agrawal, Frank Zimmerman, Zahra Naheed

“…Left bundle branch block (LBBB) usually occurs as a postoperative complication from surgical correction of congenital heart disease and can be associated with hypertensive heart disease, coronary artery disease, myocarditis, and aortic valvular disease. …”
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Effect of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors versus that of angiotensin receptor blockers on survival in patients undergoing hemodialysis: a nationwide observational cohort s... by Seok Hui Kang, Gui Ok Kim, Bo Yeon Kim, Eun Jung Son, Jun Young Do

“…The patients were classified into four groups based on the use of renin-angiotensin system blockers (RASBs) as follows: No group, patients without a prescription of any anti-hypertensive drugs including RASBs; Other group, patients with a prescription of anti-hypertensive drugs excluding RASBs; ACEI group, patients with a prescription of an ACEI; and ARB group, patients with a prescription of an ARB.Results The 5-year survival rates in the no, other, ACEI, and ARB groups were 68.6%, 67.8%, 70.6%, and 69.2%, respectively. …”
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Investigating the prevalence and associated factors of elevated liver enzymes and dyslipidemia during pregnancy by Ananya Dutta Mou, Nurshad Ali

“…On the other hand, advanced maternal age, high gravidity, and mixed dyslipidemia were associated with elevated GGT levels. Conversely, age, hypertensive disorders during pregnancy, preeclampsia, and diabetes were associated with dyslipidemia. …”
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Spontaneous Rupture of Renal Cell Carcinoma in Pregnancy: A Case Report by Mohamed Zakieldahshoury, Hassaan A. Gad, Salah Ahmed

“…We report a rare case with spontaneous rupture of renal cell carcinoma in 20 years old in full-term pregnancy primigravida presented by hypertensive disorder and severe abdominal pain with massive retro peritoneum collection, radical nephrectomy was done and the patient life was saved. …”
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An Undiagnosed Paraganglioma in a 58-Year-Old Female Who Underwent Tumor Resection by William C. Fox, Matthew Read, Richard E. Moon, Eugene W. Moretti, Brian J. Colin

“…The patient became severely hypertensive intraoperatively with paroxysmal swings in blood pressure and then later became acutely hypotensive after tumor removal. …”
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Early and Midterm Outcome of Surgical Repair of Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection by Sandy Adel, Karam Mosallam Eisa, Mohamed Adel Elgamal, Asmaa Gaber Rizk

“…Mortality occurred in 9 (33.33%) patients due to cardiac arrest during anesthesia induction in 1 (3.7%) patient, sepsis in 2 (7.41%) patients, LCOP in 4 (14.81%) patients and pulmonary hypertensive crisis in 2 (7.41%) patients. Postoperative complications were pneumothorax in 2 (7.41%) patients, pulmonary edema in 1 (3.7%) patient, re-intubation in 2 (7.41%) patients, pneumonia in 1 (3.7%) patient, fits in 2 (7.41%) patients, thrombocytopenia in 1 (3.7%) patient, bleeding from ETT in 1 (3.7%) patient, LCOP in 5 (18.52%) patients, pulmonary hypertensive crisis in 3 (11.11%) patients, cardiac arrest in 1 (3.7%) patient, renal failure in 1 (3.7%) patient and no complication in 14 (51.85%) patients. …”
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Pneumomediastinum as a Manifestation of Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis by Ahmed Alhazmi, Mohamed Moulaye Cheikh, Rola Yousef Hassan

“…A 38-year-old hypertensive male with a smoking history presented to the emergency room with significant hemoptysis, arthritis, and a purpuric rash. …”
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Postcoital Haemoptysis: A Case Report and a Review of the Literature by Emeka B. Kesieme, Browne C. Okonkwo, Peter O. Okokhere, Georgi Prisadov, Eghosa Aigbe, Christopher Affusim

“…We present a 53-year-old Nigerian, known hypertensive diabetic woman with background ischaemic heart disease who presented with postcoital haemoptysis of one-year duration. …”
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Polytrauma and continue epidural anesthesia. A case presentation. by Roberto Travieso Peña, José Julio Ojeda González, Aleida Hernández Lara

“…This is a 62 year-old hypertensive patient who was admitted at the Intensive Care Unit of the ¨Dr. …”
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Acute Aortic Occlusion Presenting as Flaccid Paraplegia by Ayman Kilany, Jasem Y. Al-Hashel, Azza Rady

“…A 67-year-old male known to be hypertensive and diabetic had a sudden onset of severe low back pain and flaccid paraplegia with no sensory level or bladder affection and the distal pulsations were felt. …”
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Impact of duration of treatments with metformin and sulfonylureas, individually or in combination, on diabetic retinopathy among newly diagnosed type 2 diabetic patients: a pooled... by Mansour Bahardoust, Yadollah Mehrabi, Farzad Hadaegh, Davood Khalili, Ali Delpisheh

“…The cumulative exposure to metformin, SUs, aspirin, statin, and anti-hypertensive medication was also determined using the same approach. …”
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The illnesses of Herod the Great by Francois P. Retief, Louise Cilliers

“…We review the nature of his illnesses and suggest that he had meningoencephalitis in 59 BC, and that he died primarily of uraemia and hypertensive heart failure, but accept diabetes mellitus as a possible underlying etiological factor. …”
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Congenital Portal Vein Aneurysm Associated with Peliosis Hepatis and Intestinal Lymphangiectasia by Zeynel Mungan, Binnur Pinarbasi, Baris Bakir, Mine Gulluoglu, Bulent Baran, Filiz Akyuz, Kadir Demir, Sabahattin Kaymakoglu

“…Herein, we presented a unique patient with these three rare entities who was admitted to our hospital because of portal hypertensive ascites rich in protein and lymphocyte. …”
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Medicinal, nutritional, and nutraceutical potential of Sparassis crispa s. lat.: a review by Neha Sharma, Ashwani Tapwal, Rachna Verma, Dinesh Kumar, Eugenie Nepovimova, Kamil Kuca

“…The broad range of its reported curative effects include anti-tumour, anti-cancer, immune-enhancing, hematopoietic, anti-angiogenic, anti-inflammatory, anti-diabetic, wound-healing, antioxidant, anti-coagulant, and anti-hypertensive properties. However, most of the studies are conducted on immunomodulatory and anticancer activities. …”
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Scrub Typhus Induced Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia: A Rare Case Report by Maharshi Patel, Sourya Acharya, Samarth Shukla, Shubham Nimkar, Sunil Kumar

“…The patient was chronic alcoholic and hypertensive for one year. After investigation patient was positive for scrub typhus. …”
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Preeclampsia, Natural History, Genes, and miRNAs Associated with the Syndrome by Laura Parada-Niño, Luisa Fernanda Castillo-León, Adrien Morel

“…Preeclampsia (PE) is a hypertensive disease that affects pregnant women after 20 weeks of gestation. …”
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Research Progress on the Preparation, Physiological Activity and Action Mechanism of Plant Derived Bioactive Peptides by Sinan LI, Xi WANG, Yu AN, Jun YU, Kaiyuan XU, Jia WANG, Zhihui ZHANG, Meng WANG, Aqin WANG, Ying WANG, Lu ZHANG

“…In addition to rich nutritional value, they also have various physiological activities such as antioxidant, hypoglycemic, hypertensive and antibacterial. In this paper, the preparation methods, physiological activity and action mechanism of plant-derived BAPs are reviewed, and the existing shortcomings and future development direction are discussed, in order to provide beneficial theoretical support for further research and industrial application of plant-derived BAPs in the field of food and medicine.…”
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Involuntary Vocalisations and a Complex Hyperkinetic Movement Disorder Following Left Side Thalamic Haemorrhage by T. Dietl, D. P. Auer, S. Modell, C. Lechner, C. Trenkwalder

“…We describe a 73 year old woman who suffered from a hypertensive thalamic haemorrhage. MRI revealed that the lesion was predominantly located within the pulvinar, extending to the lateroposterior thalamic nuclei and to the pretectal area with possible involvement of the medial geniculate body. …”
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Using Intravenous Inmunoglobulin in an Atypical Case of Lambert Eaton Síndrome. by Erélido Hernández Valero, Osbert Rodríguez Miranda

“…A 48 year-old hypertensive, smoker patient who started presenting a generalized weakness, pait instability,visual disorders and uncontrolled blood pressure is presented. …”
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Pulmonary tuberculosis in a patient with the tennis racket sign. A case report by Irene Estefania Delgado Pérez, Marileydis Almaguel García, José Sánchez Prieto

“…The 52-years-old patient, discharged as a group III adult, at risk of pulmonary tuberculosis, hypertensive and diabetic, was treated at her family doctor's office due to physical discomfort, productive and persistent cough mainly at night, anorexia and asthenia. …”
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