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CLINICAL OBSERVATIONS

JULIUS FRIEDENWALD, M.D.; SAMUEL MORRISON, M.D.

J Am Med Assoc. 1932;99(7):524-529.

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Gastro-intestinal symptoms occurring during the course of renal disease are not uncommon. These may be so pronounced that unless an extremely careful investigation is made, erroneous conclusions may easily be drawn, the primary condition remaining entirely unrecognized. This is more especially observed in the incipient stages of certain chronic renal diseases as well as in persons in the later periods of life, complaining of indigestion with urinary symptoms of a comparatively unimportant type, in whom the blood chemistry and functional renal tests reveal the presence of definite renal lesions.

On the other hand, attention has frequently been called to the fact that digestive diseases in themselves may likewise primarily produce disturbances of renal function.

The intimate relation between the kidneys and digestive organs will, to a great extent, easily account for many of these manifestations. Owing to beginning decompensation in the circulatory system, an early enlargement of the liver as . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BALTIMORE

From the Gastro-Enterological Clinic of the Department of Medicine, University of Maryland.

Footnotes
Read before the Section on Gastro-Enterology and Proctology at the Eighty-Third Annual Session of the American Medical Association, New Orleans, May 13, 1932.

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