THE EFFECT OF RENAL DENERVATION ON THE LEVEL OF ARTERIAL BLOOD PRESSURE AND RENAL FUNCTION IN ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION

Abstract

Hypertension is one of the most frequent com- plications of renal disease, both acute and chronic. The fact that in nephritis renal influences, nervous or other, apparently produce hypertension sug- gests the possibility that the unknown cause of essential hypertension may lie in nervous im- pulses from the kidney, even though the kidneys themselves appear to be entirely normal at the onset of the hypertension.