RT Book, Section
A1 MacNeill, Emily C.
A2 Schafermeyer, Robert
A2 Tenenbein, Milton
A2 Macias, Charles G.
A2 Sharieff, Ghazala Q.
A2 Yamamoto, Loren G.
SR Print(0)
ID 1105682571
T1 Pediatric Hypertension
T2 Strange and Schafermeyer's Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 4e
YR 2014
FD 2014
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-182926-7
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1105682571
RD 2024/04/24
AB Hypertension  is  defined  as  blood  pressures  ≥90th  percentile  for  age-  and  height-matched  normal  values.  Stage  2  hypertension  (≥99th  percentile)  requires  urgent  evaluation  and  treatment.The  differential  diagnosis  of  hypertension  changes  with  the  age  of  the  patient;  the  clinician  should  focus  on  the  cause  of  hypertension  and  evaluate  the  patient  for  signs  of  end-organ  damage.Initiation  of  oral  antihypertensive  agents  should  be  done  in  conjunction  with  the  physician  who  will  be  following  up  with  the  patients.Patients  with  a  hypertensive  emergency  should  be  aggressively  treated  and  admitted  to  a  pediatric  nephrologist  or  other  hypertension  specialist.