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QUESTION 93 1. A 44-year-old male patient presents in a hypertensive crisis. The blood pressure is
240:136 mm Hg. pulse is 123 b.p.m. and the patient is complaining of a severe, pounding headache. His skin is diaphoretic and he is visibly tremulous. The first diagnostic study;I to
evaluate the suspected diagnosis should be a: f" A 24 hour urine for catechola mine
metabolites f" 3 Serum epinephrine and
metanephrines r“ C T scan of the abdomen