A New Breath for Malignant Hypertension: Implementation of the HAMA Cohort
This registry aims to provide the first prospective, multicentric database of patients with malignant hypertension. It will allow to assess modern epidemiology of the disease, diversity of current management and care pathway, to deepen our pathophysiological knowledges, to modernize the definition of this form of hypertension and its diagnostic criteria. The network that will emerge will finally lead to the opportunity of setting up therapeutic trials and establishing recommendations based on solid scientific evidence.
• Malignant hypertension according to the classic definition (Severe hypertension, above 180/110 associated with severe hypertensive retinopathy)
• Severe hypertension (above 180/110) associated with acute damage of 3 target organ due to high blood pressure