II. Normal Blood Pressures in young infants and newborns
III. Causes
- See Hypertension Causes
-
Blood Pressure higher in upper extremity
- Aortic Coarctation
- Interrupted aortic arch
-
Blood Pressure higher in lower extremity
- Renal parenchymal disease
- Endocrine abnormality
- Neonatal Seizures with transient Hypertension
- Hypervolemia
- Renovascular (Umbilical Artery Catheter complication)
- Aortic mural thrombi
- Renal artery thrombosis
- Renal vein thrombosis
IV. Evaluation
- Aortic cause suspected
- Evaluate for Aortic Coarctation
- Renal or endocrine cause suspected
- Serum Electrolytes with Renal Function tests (Chem8)
- Plasma renin
- Renal Ultrasound with doppler flow
- CNS cause suspected
- CT or MRI Head
V. References
- Bada in Korones (1993) Neonatal Decision Making, p. 152
- Ingelfinger (1982) Pediatric Hypertension, p. 229-240
- Ingelfinger in Cloherty (1991) Neonatal Care, p. 492-5
- Fuloria (2002) Am Fam Physician 65(1):61-8 [PubMed]
Images: Related links to external sites (from Bing)
Related Studies
| Concepts | Disease or Syndrome (T047) |
| ICD10 | P29.2 |
| SnomedCT | 206596003 |
| Italian | Ipertensione neonatale |
| Japanese | 新生児高血圧, ｼﾝｾｲｼﾞｺｳｹﾂｱﾂ |
| German | Hypertonie beim Neugeborenen, Hypertonie Neugeborenes |
| Czech | Hypertenze novorozence |
| Korean | 신생아 고혈압 |
| English | Hypertension neonatal, neonatal hypertension (diagnosis), Hypertension, neonatal, Neonatal hypertension, Neonatal hypertension (disorder), hypertension; neonatal, hypertension; newborn, neonatal; hypertension, newborn; hypertension, Neonatal Hypertension |
| Hungarian | Újszülöttkori hypertonia |
| Dutch | hypertensie; neonataal, hypertensie; pasgeborene, neonataal; hypertensie, pasgeborene; hypertensie, Neonatale hypertensie, neonatale hypertensie |
| Spanish | hipertensión neonatal (trastorno), hipertensión neonatal, Hipertensión neonatal |
| Portuguese | Hipertensão neonatal |
| French | Hypertension du nouveau-né |
