INFARCTS OF THE KIDNEY

Abstract

This investigation was inspired primarily by case 1. As the work progressed, it was surprising to find that the subject of infarction of the kidney has been relatively neglected. The literature is comparatively scanty; textbooks for the most part mention the subject but briefly, and many clinicians fail even to include it in the list of possible diagnoses. At the Massachusetts General Hospital this diagnosis occurs only ten or twelve times in the clinical catalogue. On investigation, none of these cases were proved by operation or at autopsy. <h3>REPORT OF CASES</h3><h3>Case 1.—History. </h3> —A woman, aged 31, was admitted to the Massachusetts General Hospital on Sept. 22, 1931, with phlebitis of the left leg of three weeks' duration and severe pain in the right flank of seven days' duration. In 1921, 1923 and 1925 the patient was delivered of a premature infant each at seven months. There was a