Anesthetic management of hypertensive crisis in a three-year-old patient with undiagnosed severe renal artery stenosis: a case report.
10.4097/kjae.2014.67.4.275
- Author:
Sang Hee PARK
1
;
Yoon Sook LEE
;
Too Jae MIN
;
Woon Young KIM
;
Jae Hwan KIM
;
Young Cheol PARK
Author Information
1. Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Korea University Ansan Hospital, Ansan, Korea. yslee4719@gmail.com
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Anesthesia;
Child;
Renovascular hypertension
- MeSH:
Anesthesia;
Anesthesia, General;
Child;
Emergencies;
Female;
Humans;
Hypertension;
Hypertension, Renovascular;
Mortality;
Renal Artery Obstruction*
- From:Korean Journal of Anesthesiology
2014;67(4):275-278
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
Pediatric hypertensive crisis is a potentially life threatening medical emergency, usually secondary to an underlying disease. Hypertension commonly occurs during general anesthesia, and is usually promptly and appropriately treated by anesthesiologists. However in children with severe, unexplained, or refractory hypertension, it has the potential to cause morbidity and even mortality in susceptible patients. We report an anesthetic management of an unexpected hypertensive crisis that developed during general anesthesia in a three-year-old girl with undiagnosed severe left renal artery stenosis.
