title: Nephrectomy in severe hypertension.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, University of Oulu, Finland.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nuutinen
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Lautala
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Remes
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Uhari
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006974:Hypertension, Malignant / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D009392:Nephrectomy