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A STUDY OF THEIR RELATION IN 11,898 NECROPSIES

NORMAN M. SHURE, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1942;70(2):284-292.

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The work of Goldblatt¹ has shown that hypertension can be experimentally produced in animals by decreasing or altering the blood supply to the kidneys. Soon after the announcement of his experiments there began to appear in the literature clinical counterparts of his work. Mullholland² reviewed the literature in this regard and classified the reported cases of hypertension resulting from interference with the blood flow through the kidneys in the following manner:

1. Intrinsic, infection within the kidney
   
2. Bilateral, resulting from
   
3. Benign obstruction of the prostate Partial obstruction of the ureters
   
4. Accompanying condition in the bladder causing clinical pyelonephritis
   
5. Stone
   
6. Diverticulum
   
7. Malignant growth
   
8. Bilateral infection
   
9. Unilateral, resulting from
   
10. Pyelonephritis
    
11. Calculi
    
12. Contracted kidney caused by
    
13. Trauma
    
14. Infection
    
15. Tuberculosis of kidney
    
16. Extrinsic, effecting interference with the circulation in the renal artery Unilateral
    

Author Affiliations
CHICAGO

From the Department of Pathology, University of Illinois College of Medicine, and the Pathology Laboratories, Cook County Hospital (Dr. Walter Schiller, director).

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