Approach to the Patient with HTN

1. Name 4 physical exam finding s that could be consistent with either essential or secondary hypertinsion.

1. Fundiscopic exam --> Keith-Wagner-Barker classification
2. Auscult for bruits -- aorta, carotid, renal
3. Edema
4. BP -- UE and LE, standing and supine
     essential HTN = inc. diastolic from supine to standing
     secondary HTN = dec. " " "



             

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Created on ... November 11, 2004