Hipertensión arterial en bebés - Treatment

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Hipertensión en bebés

Tratamiento:

El tratamiento depende de la causa de la hipertensión arterial en el bebé y puede abarcar:

Diálisis
Medicamentos
Cirugía (incluyendo cirugía de trasplante o reparación de la coartación)

Expectativas (pronóstico):

El pronóstico del bebé depende de la causa de la hipertensión arterial.

Otros factores que pueden afectar el pronóstico del bebé con hipertensión arterial abarcan:

Presencia de otros problemas de salud en el bebé
Si ha ocurrido cualquier daño (como daño renal) como resultado de la hipertensión arterial

Complicaciones:

Insuficiencia renal o cardíaca
Daño a órganos
Convulsiones

Situaciones que requieren asistencia médica:

Consulte al médico si su bebé:

No logra crecer ni aumentar de peso
Tiene la piel azulada
Tiene infecciones urinarias frecuentes
Parece irritable
Se cansa fácilmente

Lleve el bebé a la sala de urgencias si:

Tiene convulsiones
No está reaccionando favorablemente
Está vomitando constantemente

Reviewed last on: 7/14/2010
David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc., and Neil K. Kaneshiro, MD, MHA, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Washington School of Medicine.

Referencias

Bernstein D. Systemic hypertension. In: Kliegman RM, Behrman RE, Jenson HB, Stanton BF, eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 18th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2007:chap 445.

Update on the 1987 Task Force Report on High Blood Pressure in Children and Adolescents: a working group report from the National High Blood Pressure Education Program. National High Blood Pressure Education Program Working Group on Hypertension Control in Children and Adolescents. Pediatrics. 1996 Nov;98(5):1002.

Robertson J, Shilkofski N, eds. Johns Hopkins: The Harriet Lane Handbook: A Manual for Pediatric House Officers, 17th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby; 2005.

Park MK. Park: Pediatric Cardiology for Practitioners, 5th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Mosby Elsevier; 2008.

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