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Hypertension affects approximately 60 million people in the United States. Long-term sequelae include cardiac arterial disease, congestive heart failure, left ventricular hypertrophy, renal disease, cerebral vascular accidents, and retinopathy. The vast majority of people with hypertension have so-called primary or essential hypertension, whereby no single etiologic cause is known. When hypertension develops as a result of an identifiable cause, it is termed “secondary” hypertension, which should be suspected in patients who have medically refractory hypertension, an acute rise in blood pressure over a short period of time, are less than 30 years old and without a family history, and those with severe hypertension. Secondary hypertension can be divided into surgical and nonsurgical. Workup begins with a thorough history, physical examination, and focused laboratory and radiographic tests.
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Boudourakis, L., Weber, K.J. (2015). Surgical Hypertension: Evaluation and Treatment. In: Saclarides, T., Myers, J., Millikan, K. (eds) Common Surgical Diseases. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1565-1_28
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