Renal enlargement in chronic cor pulmonale
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- 1 September 1961
- journal article
- research article
- Published by BMJ in Journal of Clinical Pathology
- Vol. 14 (5), 552-556
- https://doi.org/10.1136/jcp.14.5.552
Abstract
Examination of the post-mortem records of 1,391 unselected cases showed that the commonest condition associated with excessive diffuse enlargement of the kidneys was chronic cor pulmonale. A less striking enlargement was found in some cases of chronic rheumatic heart disease. A hypothesis is put forward in which the renal enlargement is regarded as a work hypertrophy brought about by the kidneys' efforts to compensate for a chronic respiratory acidosis.Keywords
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