John Loesch, discoverer of renovascular hypertension, and harry goldblatt: two great pioneers in circulation research

Abstract

In 1934, Harry Goldblatt and colleagues published a landmark article: "The Production of Persistent Elevation of Systolic Blood Pressure by Means of Renal Ischemia." One year earlier, John Loesch had published a similar study in a German-language journal. The central proposition of both papers was the same: Renal ischemia causes persistent hypertension. Although Loesch was the first to produce persistent hypertension by inducing ischemia, his work is essentially unknown. Loesch and Goldblatt deserve equal credit for these important firs