A 52-year-old man with a 10-year history of hypertension presents with recent-onset resistant hypertension (BP 165/105 mmHg on triple therapy) and progressive dyspnea. Which finding best distinguishes acute hypertensive crisis with pulmonary edema from chronic hypertensive heart disease with diastolic dysfunction?

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