1. Let’s Break the Tension
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Monica L Brown Lobbins, Rudy J. Kink, Baillie W Lott, and Arwa Nada
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Pediatrics ,medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,030208 emergency & critical care medicine ,Emergency department ,humanities ,Adolescent population ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,030225 pediatrics ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,Emergency Medicine ,medicine ,Vomiting ,Etiology ,medicine.symptom ,business - Abstract
A 14-year-old healthy male adolescent presented to the emergency department with a 1-month history of vomiting and was found to have severe hypertension secondary to renal failure. After a prolonged hospitalization and extensive workup his ultimate diagnosis was revealed. This case highlights the etiology and workup of hypertension as well as differential of hypertension and renal failure in the adolescent population.
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- 2019
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