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Hypertensive emergency associated with thoracoabdominal aneurysm: case report and review.

Adler JL, Backer CL, Langman CB

Division of Critical Care Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, IL, USA.

OBJECTIVE: To provide a description and thorough discussion of the diagnostic considerations for a rare case of malignant hypertension and aortic aneurysm in a pediatric patient. DESIGN: Case report. SETTING: A university pediatric intensive care unit. SUBJECT: A young child with a hypertensive crisis and a thoracoabdominal false aortic aneurysm. INTERVENTIONS: The child required urgent surgical intervention to resect the aneurysm and aggressive medical therapy in the pediatric intensive care unit to treat the underlying hypertension. CONCLUSIONS: Hypertensive emergencies and aortic aneurysms are unusual but potentially lethal entities in pediatric patients, requiring a high index of suspicion, prompt initiation of medical therapy, and urgent surgical consultation.

Published 28 April 2005 in Pediatr Crit Care Med, 6(3): 359-62.
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