Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in children: imperfect yet essential
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Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in children.
Recently there have been great advances in the use of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) in children. A major boost has been the publication of normative data for blood pressure in children. ABPM has been able to detect significant differences in blood pressure in many disease states including chronic renal failure, polycystic kidney disease and post renal transplantation and has helpe...
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عنوان ژورنال: Pediatric Nephrology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0931-041X,1432-198X
DOI: 10.1007/s00467-011-1984-9