What is it about?
This is a case report of a seven-year-old boy who died from autopsy-proven brain haemorrhage due to hypertensive vasculopathy.
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Why is it important?
Pediatric hypertension has not been associated with fatality. This case shows that cerebral hypertensive angiopathy may lead to fatal hemorrhage already in a child. With the advent of the epidemic of metabolic syndrome with hypertension in childhood, more cases are to be expected.
Perspectives
While single case reports usually deal with very rare or even exotic conditions, here it is a still rare complication of a common condition that reinforces the need of stringent BP control already in kids.
Prof. Herbert Budka
Medical University Vienna
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This page is a summary of: Fatal cerebral haemorrhage in a hypertensive seven-year-old boy, JRSM Open, September 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2054270416649284.
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