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Hypertensive urgency is defined as an elevated blood pressure WITHOUT evidence of end organ damage where it is recommended that the blood pressure be lowered in a manner of hours.
-Oral clonidine may be used acutely to treat hypertension, but it should be used cautiously in bradycardic patients
since it can worsen bradycardia.
-Sublingal nifedipine should NOT be used for
the acute treatment of hypertensive urgencies or emergencies since it
may lower the blood pressure too fast and may produce a stroke.
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