Surgical Management of Pediatric renin-mediated Hypertension seCONDARY TO RENAL ARTERY OCCLUSIVE DISEASE AND ABDOMINAL AORTIC COARCTATION

Renovascular hypertension (RVH) associated with renal artery and abdominal aortic narrowings is the third most common cause of pediatric hypertension. Untreated children may experience major cardiopulmonary complications, stroke, renal failure and death. The impetus of this study was to describe the increasingly complex surgical practice for such patients with an emphasis on anatomic phenotype and contemporary outcomes following surgical management, as a means of identifying those factors responsible for persistent or recurrent hypertension necessitating reoperation.

Source: Journal of Vascular Surgery - April 6, 2020 Category: Surgery Authors: Dawn M. Coleman, Jonathan L. Eliason, Robert Beaulieu, Tatum Jackson, Monita Karmakar, David B. Kershaw, Zubin J. Modi, Santhi K. Ganesh, Minhaj S. Khaja, David Williams, James C. Stanley, University of Michigan Pediatric Renovascular Hypertension Center Source Type: research