Article
Severe hypertension after liver transplantation in alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency.
Archives of disease in childhood - 1 Nov 1990
Noble-Jamieson G, Barnes N D, Thiru S, Mowat A P
Abstract excerpt
Five children with alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency and terminal liver disease received liver grafts; all five became hypertensive and four developed hypertensive encephalopathy. There was evidence of renal disease preoperatively and renal biopsy specimens showed variable glomerulonephritic histology with IgA nephropathy in one, mesangial-proliferative changes in two, and mesangio-capillary glomerulonephritis type...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Creatinine
- Female
- Glomerulonephritis, Membranoproliferative
- Humans
- Hypertension
- Hypertension, Renal
- Liver Diseases
- Liver Transplantation
