The abstract introduces a case series of 40 patients undergoing splanchnicectomy for arterial hypertension but is truncated and reports no results.
Observational (n=40)
Does splanchnicectomy improve outcomes in patients with arterial hypertension, including those with congestive heart failure and angina pectoris?
This early case series describes the use of splanchnicectomy for arterial hypertension in a broader patient population than typically selected, including those with heart failure and angina.
The surgical treatment of hypertension, though still in the experimental stage, has been widely reviewed in innumerable reports. In contribution to the literature of an increasing experience with splanchnicectomy, as advocated by Peet, we wish to present the results obtained in 40 patients. In most of the published series, candidates for operation were selected on more or less arbitrary grounds; for example, most surgeons accept for operation only patients under 50 years of age who are without congestive heart failure, angina pectoris, advanced arteriosclerosis and glomerulonephritis; they further prefer patients whose blood pressure is labile either spontaneously or after the administration of sedatives and vasodilating drugs. However, since the nerve-cutting operations for arterial hypertension are so entirely empiric, we felt justified in ignoring the published contraindications. Hoping to learn more about the effects of operation, we have accepted patients without regard to age, with congestive heart failure, angina pectoris and
David A. Rytand (1941) conducted an observational in Arterial hypertension (n=40). Splanchnicectomy was evaluated. The abstract introduces a case series of 40 patients undergoing splanchnicectomy for arterial hypertension but is truncated and reports no results.