Arterial Hypertension Associated with Acute Anterior Poliomyelitis

Abstract

AN ABNORMALLY elevated arterial blood A pressure has been a striking finding in over half the patients with acute paralytic poliomyelitis seen at the New York Hospital in the past two years. The hypertension appeared in the acute stage of the disease and sometimes lasted well into convalescence; its degree has in general been proportionate to the severity of the patient's illness.Although high blood pressure has not been widely commented on as being a concomitant or a sequela of poliomyelitis, the phenomenon has been previously recorded. Grulee and Panos,¹ for example, found transient hypertension in 51 out of 70 . . .