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high systolic pressure after brain surgery
by cypercat, Jul 22, 2008 10:57AM
14 year old son underwent a craniotomy to remove an acute subdural hematoma. Since his surgery his systolic pressures are running in the upper 130's and lower 140's. His diastolic pressures are normal (averages in the 70's) - when asked, the drs. state his brain just needs time to heal. It has been a year and I don't see the systolic number getting better - they don't seem to be getting worst (higher) either. Drs. said they will just watch it - should I be having them look into this more or just let time be the healer? Being a teenager I know they use different numbers to state if they have high blood pressure or not - my concern is that for an adult, a reading of the systolic in the 140's consistently would be worrisome - so why are they not to concern when a 14 year old systolic number is running that high for over a year?
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