Splenorenal Arterial Anastomosis in the Treatment of Stenosis of the Renal Artery

HYPERTENSION associated with stenosis of the renal artery is well recognized. After Goldblatt's1 classic experiments in which arterial hypertension was induced in animals by partial occlusion of the renal artery there was great interest in the role that stenosis of the renal artery might have in man. In 1937 Butler2 reported 2 cases of unilateral pyelonephritis associated with hypertension in which the blood pressure returned to normal after nephrectomy. This was followed by an era of enthusiasm for nephrectomy in patients with unilateral renal disease in which it was hoped that the concomitant hypertension might be relieved. However, the percentage . . .