South African Medical Journal
Journal / South African Medical Journal / Vol. 48 No. 5 (1974) / Articles

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Vol. 48 No. 5 (1974)

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V.K.G. Pillay

Department of Nephrology and Pathology, Cook Connty Hospital, and the Hektoen Institute for Medical Research; and the University of Health Sciences, Chicago Medical School, Chicago, IUinois, USA

F. Wang

Department of Nephrology and Pathology, Cook Connty Hospital, and the Hektoen Institute for Medical Research; and the University of Health Sciences, Chicago Medical School, Chicago, IUinois, USA

V.C. Gandhi

Department of Nephrology and Pathology, Cook Connty Hospital, and the Hektoen Institute for Medical Research; and the University of Health Sciences, Chicago Medical School, Chicago, IUinois, USA

Hwa J.A. Lee

Department of Nephrology and Pathology, Cook Connty Hospital, and the Hektoen Institute for Medical Research; and the University of Health Sciences, Chicago Medical School, Chicago, IUinois, USA

G. Dunea

Department of Nephrology and Pathology, Cook Connty Hospital, and the Hektoen Institute for Medical Research; and the University of Health Sciences, Chicago Medical School, Chicago, IUinois, USA

V.K.G. Pillay

F. Wang

V.C. Gandhi

Hwa J.A. Lee

G. Dunea

Abstract

Criteria for the diagnosis of uraemia as a result of benign essential nephrosclerosis were established in a group of 12 patients, most of whom had a long history of inadequately treated hypertension, arteriosclerosis, cardiomegaly and mild proteinuria. They are representative of a larger group of patients with long-standing hypertension and uraemia, in whom a presumptive diagnosis of essential benign nephrosclerosis was made on clinical grounds, but in whom histological confirmation was not possible. Thus, while we have firmly established the occurrence of uraemia from benign hypertension, the incidence of this condition remains to be determined.

S. Afr. Med. J., 48, 953 (1974).

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