Cardiology Plus (Jan 2019)

Primary orthostatic hypertension: A case report and literature review

  • Yi-Xi Wang,
  • Yu Wang,
  • Yan Xu,
  • Cong-Cong Xu,
  • Yi-Fei Dong

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/cp.cp_12_19
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 2
pp. 64 – 68

Abstract

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Orthostatic hypertension (OHT) is a sudden elevation in blood pressure after standing, which is clinically easy to ignore. Most of these OHT patients do not have characteristic manifestations of hypertension and are often diagnosed during physical examination. Most of the blood pressure increase in OHT patients is due to diastolic blood pressure, and the fluctuation is large. An adult patient with OHT was diagnosed and treated, and possible underlying mechanisms were analyzed.

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