The Medical City announced its landmark achievement of the first successful pediatric liver transplant surgery performed in the country by an all-Filipino team. The patient is three-year-old Catherine Erica Buenaventura, who was diagnosed with end-stage liver disease complicated by portal hypertension, or an increase in blood pressure in a system of veins within the stomach, […]
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Pediatric Hypertension–Journey into why the National Pediatric Blood Pressure Awareness was founded
Please take a few minutes to visit www.bloodpressure4kids.org. An estimated 2 million children are walking around right now with undiagnosed hypertension (high blood pressure.) It could be your child. In children, this is typically an indicator of a serious underlying cause. Causes such as kidney or cardiac issues among other things. These can all be […]