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GUILLERMO REEVES, MD; LEAH M. LOWENSTEIN, MD, D Phil; SHELDON C. SOMMERS, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1963;112(5):708-715.

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Introduction

Patients with cirrhosis frequently have impaired water and sodium excretion. Hyponatremia, ascites, and edema are often present, and renal failure may occur terminally.^1,2 No renal pathology has been found to account for these abnormalities. However, the juxtaglomerular bodies and the maculae densae in the kidney have not been investigated in these patients. These renal structures are probably associated with the regulation of water and sodium balance. The juxtaglomerular body is a small group of epithelioid cells that lie in the media of the afferent arteriole near each renal glomerulus (Fig 1). An increase in the granularity and the number of the juxtaglomerular cells has been associated with changes in water and sodium balance, and it is thought that the cells are responsible for the production of renin.³ A study of the juxtaglomerular bodies in patients with cirrhosis was therefore undertaken.

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Author Affiliations
BOSTON

Research fellow in experimental pathology, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation (Dr. Reeves); Instructor in Medicine, Tufts University, and Clinical Investigator, Veterans Administration Hospital (Dr. Lowenstein); Pathologist of Scripps Memorial Hospital (Dr. Sommers).

From the department of pathology, Scripps Memorial Hospital, LaJolla, Calif; department of medicine, Boston Veterans Administration Hospital; and the department of medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston.

Footnotes
Received for publication Feb 8, 1963; accepted May 24.

This study was presented in part at the meetings of the American Society for Experimental Pathology, April, 1962.

This investigation was aided by US Public Health Service grant CY-6330.

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