Differential Diagnosis of a Hypertensive Crisis
Other conditions may cause hypertensive crisis [7].
- Essential hypertension
- Renovascular hypertension
- Renal parenchymal disease
- Endocrine causes (Phaeochromocytoma, cushings syndrome, hyperaldosteronism,thyrotoxicosis, hyperparathyroidism, acromegaly, adrenal carcinoma
- Eclampsia and pre eclampsia
- Vasculitis
- Drugs
- Spinal cord injury
- Coarctation of the aorta