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HUBERT F. LOYKE, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1962;110(1):45-49.

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Prolonged remission of well-established hypertension is infrequently observed. In 1924 O'Hare¹ was the first to describe normal blood pressures in patients demonstrating retinopathy attributable to previously documented hypertension. Meakins² in 1932 noted return of blood pressure from hypertensive to normal levels with the onset of jaundice. Schwab³ has described cases of hypertensive cardiovascular disease with congestive heart failure and liver engorgement which had become and remained normotensive. Studying human necropsy material, Raaschou⁴ concluded that severe impairment of liver function by chronic hepatitis may produce normalization of the blood pressure in hypertension.

Hypertension and milder forms of cirrhosis of the liver are not infrequently coincident in the same person, since both are diseases of late and middle life. A review of records of more than 500 patients with hepatic cirrhosis⁵ revealed 90 with a systolic pressure of 150 or greater, of which only 60 had a . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CLEVELAND

Research Department, St. Vincent Charity Hospital, Cleveland.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Dec. 18, 1961.

This study was supported by Grant H-4107, National Heart Institute, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Public Health Service.

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