Remarks on orthostatic albuminuria / by F. Parkes Weber.

  • Weber, Frederick Parkes, 1863-1962.
Date:
1911
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Credit: Remarks on orthostatic albuminuria / by F. Parkes Weber. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    renal symptoms and cardiac symptoms from the point of view of prognosis. Just as grave myocardial changes may exist without obvious clinical symptoms, so also organic renal disease may be present in people who seem to be in good health, and whose urine is some- times quite free from albumin. Just as young persons may present cardiac murmurs, palpitation, etc., in the absence of organic heart disease, so also they may pass albumin in their urine in the absence of organic renal disease. And just as an organically diseased heart may regain its functional activity and do all the work that it is called on to do, so in cases of parenchymatous nephritis with dropsy of long duration one may occasionally observe a kind of “ urinary crisis ” during which, in the course of a few days, the dropsy entirely disappears owing to the kidneys having recovered their functional activity, although remaining, of course, anatomically diseased. A I) LA HD AND SON, 1MPB., LONDON AND DORKING.