DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2019.v07i09.046

Pages: 3149-3152

Hypertension affects children and teenagers more rarely than adults, and is a major and very common cardiovascular risk factor. It is often a fortuitous discovery during complications (hypertensive emergencies). The hypertensive emergency by stenosis of the renal artery, in pediatric, is particular in its clinical presentation, defined by a severe hypertension accompanied by ischemic or haemorrhagic failure of one or more organs. Hypertensive emergencies are rare in children in intensive care. However they are very severe and renal etiologies are not sometimes sought. The care must be multidisciplinary. We report two hypertensive emergency observations received in the intensive care unit of the Ziguinchor Peace Hospital.