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End organ damage is severe impairment of major body organs due to systemic disease. Commonly this is referred to in diabetes , high blood pressure , or states of low blood pressure or low blood volume. [ 1 ]
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Neuromuscular junction (motor end-organ) Lamellar corpuscle (Pacinian corpuscle end-organ) The ultimately affected organ in a chain of events, such as a disease process (pathophysiology) or a drug's mechanism of action (sometimes called a target organ in this sense) End organ damage, disease of such organs Ambulatory blood pressure § Target ...
A hypertensive emergency is very high blood pressure with potentially life-threatening symptoms and signs of acute damage to one or more organ systems (especially brain, eyes, heart, aorta, or kidneys). It is different from a hypertensive urgency by this additional evidence for impending irreversible hypertension-mediated organ damage (HMOD).
Hypertensive emergency with end-organ dysfunction (e.g., encephalopathy, retinal hemorrhage) is common. Thrombocytopenia and microangiopathic hemolytic anemia can be seen. Urinalysis is usually normal but may show mild proteinuria, as in this patient; casts are unexpected.
The gut is the most sensitive to intra-abdominal hypertension, and it develops evidence of end-organ damage before alterations are observed in other systems. [13] In a recent systematic review, Holodinsky et al. described 25 risk factors associated with IAH (intra-abdominal hypertension) and 16 with ACS (abdominal compartment syndrome).
Septic shock is a potentially fatal medical condition that occurs when sepsis, which is organ injury or damage in response to infection, leads to dangerously low blood pressure and abnormalities in cellular metabolism. The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3) defines septic shock as a subset of sepsis ...
"And in the End..." is the series finale of the American medical drama television series ER. The two-hour episode, which serves as the 22nd episode of the fifteenth season and the 331st episode overall, was written by John Wells and directed by Rod Holcomb and aired on NBC on April 2, 2009. It was preceded by a one-hour retrospective special.