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IHS Diagnosis ICD-10
10.3.2 Headache attributed to hypertensive crisis without hypertensive encephalopathy [I10] G44.813  

Diagnostic criteria:

  1. Headache with at least one of the following characteristics and fulfilling criteria C and D:
    1. bilateral
    2. pulsating quality
    3. precipitated by physical activity
  2. Hypertensive crisis defined as a paroxysmal rise in systolic (to >160 mm Hg) and/or diastolic (to >120 mm Hg) blood pressure but no clinical features of hypertensive encephalopathy
  3. Headache develops during hypertensive crisis
  4. Headache resolves within 1 hour after normalisation of blood pressure
  5. Appropriate investigations have ruled out vasopressor toxins or medications as causative factors

Comment:

Paroxysmal hypertension may occur in association with failure of baroreceptor reflexes (after carotid endarterectomy or subsequent to irradiation of the neck) or in patients with enterochromaffin cell tumours.

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