The vascular lesions of renal hypertension in the rabbit.

The problem of hypertension and its relation to the kidney, and lesions throughout the vascular tree has excited considerable interest since the days of Richard Bright. In the human, hypertension may be associated with changes in the arterioles generally, although Chiefly in the kidneys but frequently the picture of hypertension may be present without the expected pathological findings. Severe degrees of arteriösclerosis may be found in chronic hypertension but again this is not a constant feature.[...