Hypertension secondary to renal hypoplasia presenting as acute heart failure in a newborn

• Main Authors: Jena Deitrick (Author), Kayle Stevenson (Author), Daniel Nguyen (Author), William Sessions (Author), Vijay Linga (Author), Tetyana Vasylyeva (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Introduction Neonatal hypertension is defined as persistent systolic and/or diastolic blood pressures above the 95th percentile compared to other infants of similar gestational age and size. Neonatal hypertension is a rare condition, occurring in only 0.2-3.0% of neonates. The most common e...