Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Pediatric Hypertension: A Mini Review

Overview

Journal Front Pediatr

Specialty Pediatrics

Date 2017 May 30

PMID 28553631

Citations 13

Authors

Robert P Woroniecki

Andrew Kahnauth

Laurie E Panesar

Katarina Supe-Markovina

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Abstract

Adults with arterial hypertension (HTN) have stroke, myocardial infarction, end-stage renal disease (ESRD), or die at higher rates than those without. In children, HTN leads to target organ damage, which includes kidney, brain, eye, blood vessels, and heart, which precedes "hard outcomes" observed in adults. Left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) or an anatomic and pathologic increase in left ventricular mass (LVM) in response to the HTN is a pediatric surrogate marker for HTN-induced morbidity and mortality in adults. This mini review discusses current definitions, clinically relevant methods of LVM measurements and normalization methods, its epidemiology, management, and issue of reversibility in children with HTN. Pediatric definition of LVH and abnormal LVM is not uniformed. With multiple definitions, prevalence of pediatric HTN-induced LVH is difficult to ascertain. In addition while in adults cardiac magnetic resonance imaging is considered "the gold standard" for LVM and LVH determination, pediatric data are limited to "special populations": ESRD, transplant, and obese children. We summarize available data on pediatric LVH treatment and reversibility and offer future directions in addressing LVH in children with HTN.

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