Diagnosis of Hypertension Due to Occlusions of the Renal Artery

作者：E. Gordon Margolin, John P. Merrill, J. Hartwell Harrison · 发表于：New England Journal of Medicine · 年份：1957 · DOI：10.1056/nejm195703282561302 · 被引用次数：55 · 研究领域：Renal and Vascular Pathologies、Abdominal vascular conditions and treatments

THE syndrome of curable hypertension due to unilateral renal disease has evoked widespread clinical interest since Goldblatt's1 classic experiments and Butler's2 report of the first case in 1937. Our particular interest in certain ancillary clinical findings helpful in the bedside diagnosis of this disease arose during the period of observation of a thirty-seven-year-old man with occlusion of the right renal artery. A review of the available literature, with particular emphasis on patients whose unilateral renal hypertension was due to occlusive disease of the renal arteries, demonstrated that leukocytosis, polyuria, albuminuria and impairment of urinary concentrating ability may all be a . . .