Malignant hypertension in a child with solitary functioning hydronephrotic kidney.
A child with solitary functioning hydronephrotic kidney and hypertensive encephalopathy is described. Removal of the contralateral dysplastic kidney failed to normalize his blood pressure.
Department of Pediatrics, Maulana Azad Medical College and Lok Nayak Hospital, New Delhi 110 002, India.
Seema
S
Kapoor
Urmila
U
Jhamb
Santosh K
SK
Mittal
Satish K
SK
Aggarwal
D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D006869:Hydronephrosis / Q000150:complications*; D006974:Hypertension, Malignant / Q000209:etiology*; D007668:Kidney / Q000002:abnormalities*; D008297:Male; D009392:Nephrectomy