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Polycythaemia and hypertension caused by renal artery stenosis
1Department of Paediatric Nephrology, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Queen Victoria Road, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4LP, UK. malcolm.coulthard@ncl.ac.uk
Archives of Disease in Childhood
|March 29, 2002
Abstract:
A girl with failure to thrive and a haemoglobin of 140 g/l at 1.3 years died from a brain haemorrhage 2.5 years later. Renal artery stenosis had caused severe, chronic hypertension and increased erythropoietin secretion (haemoglobin 182 g/l). Blood pressure should be measured in all unwell children, including those failing to thrive.