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Nephrectomy in severe hypertension
M Nuutinen1, P Lautala, M Remes
1Department of Pediatrics, University of Oulu, Finland.
Clinical Nephrology
|November 15, 2000
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.