Elevated blood pressure (180/110 mmHg) requiring prompt treatment to lower blood pressure but without evidence of acute end-organ damage.
Hypertensive urgency is a severe elevation in blood pressure without the presence of acute end-organ damage, such as stroke, encephalopathy, cardiac ischemia, or acute kidney injury. It requires blood pressure lowering within a few hours.
"Patient presented to the clinic complaining of headache. Vital signs reveal hypertensive urgency with BP 180/110 mmHg. No other significant findings on physical exam."
Used to document severely elevated blood pressure in a patient without evidence of acute target organ damage.
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