About angipertonic azotemic nephritis

Abstract

Volhard's position that chronic nephritis is necessarily accompanied by hypertension, especially in the presence of azotemia, has now been shaken by the works of Vidal, Weil, Guy, Laroche, Demulier, Zimnitsky, Weinstein, and others.

Zimnitsky noted the possibility of the existence of chronic diffuse nephritis without hypertension back in 1927. The author called this form angipertonic chronic azotemic nephropathy or azotemic nephritis without hypertension.

Recently, we have had the opportunity to observe two such cases and see how sometimes individual clinical cases do not fit into the stereotyped theoretical schemes.

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