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Nephrology

G60 SINGLE CENTRE OUTCOME OF CHILDHOOD PRIMARY RENOVASCULAR HYPERTENSION
S. D. Marks, R. Davies, M. J. Dillon, P. Duffy, I. Gordon, G. Hamilton, R. HLord, C. McLaren, D. Roebuck, V. Shah, R. Shroff, S. E. Stephen, K. Tullus.Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, London, UK

Aims: To evaluate the clinical outcomes, morbidity, and mortality of children undergoing medical and surgical interventions in renovascular hypertension in a tertiary and quaternary paediatric nephrology service over the past 30 years.

Methods: Patients were identified through searches of the Paediatric Nephrology database at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children. Exclusion criteria included hypertension secondary to vasculitis (such as polyarteritis nodosa) and transplant renal artery stenosis.

Results: Full data were available for a total of 109 patients (70 male (64%)) who presented at aged 0.5–17.0 (median 7.7) years with renovascular hypertension. Twenty three (21%) patients were asymptomatic with hypertension noted as an incidental finding and 27 (25%) diagnosed secondary to a . . . [Full text of this article]