The Treatment of Hypertension: Comparison of Mortality in Medically and Surgically Treated Cases

Article1 January 1944THE TREATMENT OF HYPERTENSION: COMPARISON OF MORTALITY IN MEDICALLY AND SURGICALLY TREATED CASESNATHAN FLAXMAN, M.D.NATHAN FLAXMAN, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-20-1-120 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIn previous papers the results of various observations on the course of hypertension were presented.2 The purpose in the present paper is to compare the observations on a series of medically treated patients with those of an analogous series in which treatment was by so-called specific surgery.A series of 244 selected patients, all under 50 years of age, was included in this study because the period of observation of 5 to 10 years seemed adequate to evaluate the results and because the time period lends itself to comparative study.Wagener and Keith6and Peet et al.4grouped their series...Bibliography1. DE TAKATSHEYERKEETON GHERW: The surgical approach to hypertension, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1942, cxviii, 501. CrossrefGoogle Scholar2. FLAXMAN N (a) : The course of hypertensive heart disease, ANN. INT. MED., 1936, x, 748. (b) FLAXMAN, N.: The course of hypertensive heart disease, in relation to gross arteriosclerosis, Am. Jr. Med. Sci., 1938, clxxxxv, 638. (c) FLAXMAN, N.: Disturbances of rate and rhythm in hypertensive heart disease, Arch. Int. Med., 1940, lxv, 595. (d) FLAXMAN, N.: Left ventricular failure due to essential hypertension, Jr. Lab. and Clin. Med., 1941, xxvi, 1891. (e) FLAXMAN, N.: Hypertensive heart disease of 10 to 20 years' duration; report of 11 cases, ANN. INT. MED., 1941, xv, 821. LinkGoogle Scholar3. FLAXMAN N (a) : The blood pressure in essential hypertension, Unpublished data. (b) FLAXMAN, N.: The renal factor in essential hypertension, Unpublished data. Google Scholar4. PEETWOODSBRADEN MMWWS (a) : The surgical treatment of hypertension, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1940, cxv, 1875. (b) WOODS, W. W., and PEET, M. M.: The surgical treatment of hypertension, II, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1941, cxvii, 1508. CrossrefGoogle Scholar5. PEETWOODS MMWW: Correspondence, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1941, cxviii, 2189. CrossrefGoogle Scholar6. WAGENERKEITH HPNM: Diffuse arteriolar disease with hypertension and the associated retinal lesions, Medicine, 1939, xviii, 317. CrossrefGoogle Scholar7. WEISS E: Correspondence, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1941, cxvii, 2189. CrossrefGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Chicago, Illinois*Received for publication August 28, 1942.From the Department of Medicine, Loyola University Medical School, and the Cook County Hospital (Service of Dr. Harry J. Isaacs), Chicago. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited bySYMPATHECTOMY IN THE TREATMENT OF HYPERTENSION REVIEW OF 122 CASESMalignant Hypertension 1 January 1944Volume 20, Issue 1Page: 120-124KeywordsHospital medicineHypertensionMortalitySurgery Issue Published: 1 January 1944 PDF downloadLoading ...