Urinary catecholamines during stress and ambulatory blood pressure in children born full term but small for gestational age: a pilot study.

Objectives: Increased sympathetic activity is proposed to be a mechanism of high blood pressure in children born small for gestational age. Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring is a form of blood pressure measurement that can detect high blood pressure outside the hospital in patients with normal office blood pressure. This condition is called masked hypertension.

Unusual cause of anemia in a child with end-stage renal disease: Questions.

This is the case of a 5-year-old girl diagnosed with end-stage renal disease due to bilateral renal hypoplasia who developed anemia of unknown cause.

Blood pressure and heart rate during stress in children born small for gestational age.

Background: Increased sympathetic nervous system activity has been proposed as a potential mechanism for the blood pressure (BP) elevation seen in individuals born small for gestational age (SGA). This study was carried out to detect the changes in BP and heart rate (HR) in children born SGA during exposure to stress and to assess for changes in urinary catecholamine excretion.

Methods: Nineteen children aged 6-14 years born SGA and 17 age- and gender-matched healthy controls were included in the study.