Differential Diagnosis of a Hypertensive Crisis

Other conditions may cause hypertensive crisis [7].

• Essential hypertension
• Renovascular hypertension
• Renal parenchymal disease
• Endocrine causes (Phaeochromocytoma, cushings syndrome, hyperaldosteronism,thyrotoxicosis, hyperparathyroidism, acromegaly, adrenal carcinoma
• Eclampsia and pre eclampsia
• Vasculitis
• Drugs
• Spinal cord injury
• Coarctation of the aorta