Remission of Essential Hypertension after Renal Transplantation

Meyer D. Lifschitz; Alvin P. Shapiro; Michael R. Lee; John Harvey; David Worth; John J. Curtis; Robert G. Luke; Harriet P. Dustan; John D. Whelchel; Arnold G. Diethelm; Patricia Jones; Michael Kashgarian; Norman M Kaplan

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Remission of Essential Hypertension after Renal Transplantation

Meyer D. Lifschitz, Alvin P. Shapiro, Michael R. Lee, John Harvey, David Worth, John J. Curtis, Robert G. Luke, Harriet P. Dustan, John D. Whelchel, Arnold G. Diethelm, Patricia Jones, Michael Kashgarian, Norman M Kaplan

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To the Editor: The paper by Curtis et al. (Oct. 27 issue)¹ and the accompanying editorial by Kaplan² are of considerable interest to any physician concerned with the basic mechanisms of hypertension and especially “essential hypertension.” The average blood pressure of the patients, when their native kidneys were in place and they were receiving at least four different antihypertensive medications, was reported as 168±9 mm Hg. In the appendix of the paper, the blood pressures after nephrectomy are presented. The average value of these blood pressures, calculated by me, was 117±6 mm Hg. Thus, there was a 51-mm Hg drop.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	853-855
Number of pages	3
Journal	New England Journal of Medicine
Volume	310
Issue number	13
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJM198403293101314
State	Published - Mar 29 1984

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Remission of Essential Hypertension after Renal Transplantation

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