Hypertensive emergency and seizures in a 30-year-old man with anti-glomerular basement membrane disease.

Anti-glomerular basement membrane disease can rapidly lead to renal failure and blood pressure dysregulation. A rare complication is hypertensive encephalopathy in the form of seizures. Patients who have a negative initial seizure workup should have an MRI.

The association of nephrolithiasis with hypertension and obesity: a review.

Kidney stones affect hypertensive patients disproportionately compared to normotensive individuals. On the other hand, some prospective data suggest that a history of nephrolithiasis was associated with a greater tendency to develop hypertension. Newer epidemiologic data also link obesity and diabetes, features of the metabolic syndrome, with nephrolithiasis.