Amyloid Disease with Hypertension

Abstract

IN THE available literature there are only 39 reported cases of hypertension associated with amyloid disease. Classically, amyloid disease of the kidney is associated with a low or normal blood pressure.In 1881 Dickinson¹ made the first reference to the occurrence of hypertension in amyloid disease. In 1894 Litten² reported 2 cases of hypertension with "Bright'sche Retinitis" occurring among several hundred cases of amyloid disease that he reviewed. Danisch,³ Fahr,⁴ Dixon,⁵ Altnow, Van Winkle and Cohen,⁶ Auerbach and Stemmerman⁷ and Dahlin⁸ have referred to single or several cases of amyloid disease with hypertension. However, these reports do not include pathological . . .