The cardiovascular phenotype of childhood hypertension: a cardiac magnetic resonance study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The cardiovascular phenotype is poorly characterized in treated pediatric hypertension. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be used to better characterize both cardiac and vascular phenotype in children with hypertension.

Objective

To use MRI to determine the cardiac and vascular phenotypes of different forms of treated hypertension and compare the results with those of healthy children.

Materials and methods

Sixty children (15 with chronic renal disease with hypertension, 15 with renovascular hypertension, 15 with essential hypertension and 15 healthy subjects) underwent MRI with noninvasive blood pressure measurements. Cardiovascular parameters measured include systemic vascular resistance, total arterial compliance, left ventricular mass

SUBMITTER: Cheang MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6614159 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature