RENAL DISEASES: SOME FACTS AND PROBLEMS
Authors: L LEITER
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1948)

Article1 February 1948RENAL DISEASES: SOME FACTS AND PROBLEMSLOUIS LEITER, M.D., Ph.D.LOUIS LEITER, M.D., Ph.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-28-2-229 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThis discussion will include some comments on the classification of renal diseases; the pathogenesis and prognosis of acute diffuse glomerulonephritis; the sequence of events in hypertensive vascular disease or "essential" hypertension, and some of the diagnostic and therapeutic implications; the status of diabetic glomerulosclerosis; and the rôle of the great group of functional diseases of the kidney with special emphasis on circulatory or hemodynamic disturbances, as well as on affections of the renal tubules. 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