Rémy Hamdan, Anne-Laure Baldassini, Alice Vilcan, Guillaume Alan, Karine Ighilkrim, Célia Gauchon-Rousseau, Anne-Claire Du Besset
Journal of hypertension 2024 Dec 01Overestimation of blood pressure (BP) resulting from medial artery calcification (MAC) is a cause of pseudoresistant hypertension. In this condition, there is no noninvasive way to reliably assess the BP. We report the case of a 62-year-old man who had a four-limb MAC, hypertension despite five antihypertensive molecules, and significant orthostatic hypotension following the addition of the fifth drug. Hypotension symptoms resolved after discontinuation of two treatments. Subsequently, measurement of finger SBP (FSBP) by laser Doppler flowmeter (LDF) was used to estimate upper-limb SBP. While the brachial SBP was greater than 170 mmHg, the FSBP was always less than 140 mmHg. In the absence of upper-limb artery disease, by evidencing the discrepancy between FSBP and brachial SBP, LDF-obtained FSBP could be a reliable tool to ascertain pseudohypertension and monitor the antihypertensive treatment. Copyright © 2024 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.
Rémy Hamdan, Anne-Laure Baldassini, Alice Vilcan, Guillaume Alan, Karine Ighilkrim, Célia Gauchon-Rousseau, Anne-Claire Du Besset. Finger SBP measurement as a way to manage hypertension in patients with markedly calcified arteries: a case report. Journal of hypertension. 2024 Dec 01;42(12):2206-2210
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