Pseudohypertension due to medial calcific sclerosis.
A hypertensive crisis requires rapid diagnosis and treatment to prevent serious sequelae. A patient with medial calcific sclerosis, however, may appear to have extremely elevated blood pressure values but, in effect, be normotensive. Consideration should be given to this condition when the patient's clinical appearance does not reflect the extremely elevated blood pressure values as measured.
D000368:Aged; D001161:Arteriosclerosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D001794:Blood Pressure; D002114:Calcinosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male