The relations of cardiac hypertrophy to renal disease / by Robert Saundby.

  • Saundby, Robert, 1849-1918.
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[1880]
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    THE BIRMINGHAM MEDICAL REVIEW, JANUARY, 1880. REVIEWS. THE RELATIONS OF CARDIAC HYPERTROPHY TO RENAL DISEASE. The coincidence of cardiac hypertrophy with renal disease, more especially with granular degeneration of the kidneys, is so frequent, and so often wanting in any local mechanical explanation, that it has always attracted considerable attention, and, although the discussion has not yet arrived at a very definite settlement of the question, it has been the cause of a thorough examination of the entire pathological relations of Bright’s disease, which has produced results of the highest practical importance. The frequency of this coincidence seems to be in about one-half of the cases. It cannot be admitted that its absence is due to the renal disease being not far enough advanced. Doubtless the coincidence would be very much more complete were all the cases of hypertrophy included in the statistics, but those explicable by valvular or vascular disease have been excluded. Some authorities give a much larger proportion than one-half, and, perhaps, it is difficult to determine who is right; but this we do know, that the heart is not always hyper¬ trophied even when the kidneys are very contracted. In A