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Hypertension secondary to progressive vascular neurofibromatosis
A Kurien1, P R John, D V Milford
1Department of Nephrology, Birmingham Children's Hospital, Ladywood Middleway.
Archives of Disease in Childhood
|May 1, 1997
Abstract:
A 4 year old girl with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) was referred for hypertension. An aortogram showed narrowing of the left main renal artery. An angiogram three and a half years later showed coarctation of the abdominal aorta. She underwent aortoplasty but the stenosis recurred. Vascular involvement in NF1 may be progressive and requires long term follow up.