Paroxysmal hypertension
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Paroxysmal hypertension is episodic high blood pressure.
Classification
Patients with paroxysmal hypertension who test negative for phaeochromocytoma are said to be suffering from pseudophaechromocytoma,[1] a disorder with no known cause.
Causes
- Amphetamine
- Anxiety
- Baroreflex failure
- Brain tumor
- Carcinoid
- Cluster headache
- Cocaine
- Factitious hypertension
- Hyperthyroidism
- Intracranial hemorrhage
- Lateral medulla compression
- Lysergic acid diethylamide
- Mastocytosis
- Migraine headache
- Pheochromocytoma
- Renovascular hypertension
- Traumatic brain injury
- Tyrosine ingestion combined with monoamine oxidase inhibitors
- Seizures
- Stroke
Natural History, Complications and Prognosis
- Some cases can result in hypertensive encephalopathy
References
- ↑ Kuchel, O. Pseudopheochromocytoma. Hypertension 1985; 7:151