Hematospermia as a manifestation of severe hypertension in a young man

Whilst hematospermia may indicate urological disease, it is a rare manifestation of severe systemic hypertension. We describe the case of a young man with hematospermia associated with a blood pressure of 228/135. Blood pressure treatment led to resolution of his hematospermia. Physicians must be aw...

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Autores principales: Amasanti, Maria, Huang, Cleo, Lovell, Ben
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5378869/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28396766
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.849
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description Whilst hematospermia may indicate urological disease, it is a rare manifestation of severe systemic hypertension. We describe the case of a young man with hematospermia associated with a blood pressure of 228/135. Blood pressure treatment led to resolution of his hematospermia. Physicians must be aware of this potential association.
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spelling pubmed-53788692017-04-10 Hematospermia as a manifestation of severe hypertension in a young man Amasanti, Maria Huang, Cleo Lovell, Ben Clin Case Rep Case Reports Whilst hematospermia may indicate urological disease, it is a rare manifestation of severe systemic hypertension. We describe the case of a young man with hematospermia associated with a blood pressure of 228/135. Blood pressure treatment led to resolution of his hematospermia. Physicians must be aware of this potential association. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2017-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5378869/ /pubmed/28396766 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.849 Text en © 2017 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Hematospermia as a manifestation of severe hypertension in a young man
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5378869/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28396766
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.849
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