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.
Kapoor
Seema
S
Department of Pediatrics, Maulana Azad Medical College and Lok Nayak Hospital, New Delhi 110 002, India.
Jhamb
Urmila
U
Mittal
Santosh K
SK
Aggarwal
Satish K
SK
D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D006869:Hydronephrosis / Q000150:complications*; D006974:Hypertension, Malignant / Q000209:etiology*; D007668:Kidney / Q000002:abnormalities*; D008297:Male; D009392:Nephrectomy