1969 Volume 60 Issue 6 Pages 516-528
Remarkable progress in diagnostic technique has made it possible to detect not a few renovascular hypertensive patients. This diastolic hypertensive disorder has been much attracted and many articles on the subject have been published because of its effectiveness by surgical treatment and its suggestive association with the renin-angiotension-aldosterone system. The etiology of this disease has been obscure, and the causative as well as maintaining mechanism is no more than speculation. Recently, two interesting cases of renal hypertension were experienced in our clinic and articles of renovascular involvements have been dicussed.
