ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION ASSOCIATED WITH ENDOCRINE DYSCRASIA

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The purport of this paper is to offer additional evidence to the recent literature in which attempts have been made to associate a certain selected group of cases of arterial hypertension with disturbed internal secretions. In doing this the burden of proof is, first, to establish the existence of positive endocrine states in these cases; and, second, definitely to exclude the presence of a possible vasculorenal or other lesion as the cause of the arterial hypertension. With a few exceptions, the negative diagnosis of cardiovasculorenal lesions in the cases here reported was based on the absence of present-day clinical manifestations and the course of the disease. The diagnoses of different endocrine dyscrasias were based on clinical evidence considered sufficient for the demonstration of positive endocrine disease, plus the exclusion of other possible diseases as a cause for the symptomatology. The personal observations here reported were deduced from an analysis of