Nephrectomy in severe hypertension.
We describe a 12-year-old girl who died due to hypertensive encephalopathy and a 7-year-old boy with a favorable outcome after bilateral nephrectomy. Both had end-stage renal disease. Nephrectomy should be considered as a possible treatment of severe hypertension even without end-stage renal disease, if the patient has symptoms of hypertensive encephalopathy.
Nuutinen
M
M
Department of Pediatrics, University of Oulu, Finland.
Lautala
P
P
Remes
M
M
Uhari
M
M
D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006974:Hypertension, Malignant / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D009392:Nephrectomy