Sign and symptoms of malignant hypertension include neurological changes such as anxiety, confusion, lethargy, numbness, tingling or weakness in the extremism and seizures.
The most common presentations include headaches and visual disturbances, chest pain, and dyspnea.
Other possible symptoms include nausea, vomiting and decreased urine production. Cardiac symptoms such as angina, myocardial infarction and pulmonary oedema my occasionally be the main presenting symptoms.
Malignant hypertension causes target organ damage, particularly to the kidney. The patient is likely in renal failure, indicated by the elevation in blood urea nitrogen and creatinine, the lack of urine production and the metabolite acidosis.
Persistent elevated malignant hypertension can lead to rapidly fatal course, with heart failure, myocardial infarction stroke or renal failure.
Symptoms of malignant hypertension
