Definition of malignant hypertension

Malignant hypertension refers to hypertension emergency, refers to hypertension patients in adverse factors under the action of sudden significant increase in blood pressure, and accompanied by heart, brain and other target organ function damage.

Hypertension emergency is mostly due to emotional overreaction, endocrine dysfunction and other adverse factors induced, hypertension patients by the above adverse factors will lead to sudden increase in blood pressure in a short period of time, and significantly higher than the previous blood pressure level, will eventually cause heart, brain and other target organ function damage, resulting in headache, blurred vision, breathing difficulties and other clinical symptoms, known as hypertension emergency.

Patients diagnosed with the disease should be timely intervention treatment to reduce target organ damage, can improve the quality of daily life. But if not timely attention, it may endanger the patient's life.