An unusual case of severe therapy-resistant hypertension in a newborn

Pediatrics

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Kiessling, Stefan G ^a   Wadhwa, Nitin ^a   Kriss, Vesna M ^a   Iocono, Joseph ^a   Desai, Nirmala S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypertension; Neonates; Renal

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CAPTOPRIL; ENALAPRILAT; ESMOLOL; GENTAMICIN; HYDRALAZINE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT;

ADD ON THERAPY; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; DRUG MECHANISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTENSION ENCEPHALOPATHY; KIDNEY ARTERY STENOSIS; KIDNEY VEIN THROMBOSIS; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; NEPHRECTOMY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; VASODILATATION; RENOVASCULAR HYPERTENSION; THROMBOSIS;

ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENTS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, RENOVASCULAR; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RENAL ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 33846902662     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 02105721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2006-0758     Document Type: Article

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