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ALBERT EHRLICH, M.D.; BERNARD N. BRODOFF, M.D.; IRA L. RUBIN, M.D.; JAMES I. BERKMAN, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1953;92(4):591-601.

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GOLDBLATT¹ and Wilson and Byrom² have shown experimentally that occlusion of renal arteries in animals results in sustained hypertension. Yuile³ reviewed the relation of obstructive lesions of the main renal arteries to hypertension in man and concluded that in only a small percentage of the reported cases could a definite etiologic relationship be established between the vascular lesion and the elevation of blood pressure.

This report is concerned with the unusual case of a young woman with a documented long history of normotension who died from the sequelae of a short course of malignant hypertension associated with recent thrombotic unilateral renal artery occlusion. The concurrent onset of malignant hypertension and complete occlusion of a renal artery strongly suggests an etiologic relationship.

REPORT OF A CASE

M. A., a 32-year-old white woman, was admitted to Montefiore Hospital on Jan. 26, 1952, because of severe abdominal pain, sudden blindness, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Laboratory and Medical Divisions, Montefiore Hospital; Assistant Resident Pathologist (Dr. Ehrlich), Assistant, Medical Division (Dr. Brodoff), Associate Attending Physician, Medical Division (Dr. Rubin), Associate Pathologist (Dr. Berkman).

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