The Surgical Treatment of Hypertension

Smithwick, R.H. : Splanchnicectomy in the treatment of essential hypertension, in Hypertension, J. H. Moyer (Ed.). (The first Hahnemann symposium on hypertensive disease.) W.B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia and London , 1959.

Grimson, K.S. : Total thoracic and partial to total lumbar sympathectomy and celiac ganglionectomy in the treatment of hypertension. Ann. Surg. 114: 211, 1964.

Green, D.M. , Nelson, J.N. , Dodds, G.A. , and Smalley, R.E. : Bilateral adrenalectomy in malignant hypertension and diabetes. J.A.M.A. 144: 439, 1950.

Jeffers, W.A. , Zintel, H.A. , Hills, A.G. , Hafkenschiel , J.H. , Langfeld, S.B. , Sellers, A.M. , Wolferth, C.C. , and Mackie, J.A. : Experiences with thoracolumbar sympathectomy and with combined adrenalectomy-sympathectomy in the treatment of patients with essential hypertension. Surgery 37: 928, 1955.

Thorn, G.W. , Harrison, J.H. , Merrill, J.P. , Criscitiello, M.G. , Frawley, T.F. , and Finkenstaedt, J.T. : Clinical studies on bilateral complete adrenalectomy in patients with severe hypertensive vascular disease. Ann. Int. Med. 37: 972, 1952.

Zintel, H.A. : Adrenalectomy versus sympathectomy: results of surgery, in J. H. Moyer (Ed.) Hypertension, p. 695, W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia, 1959.

Zintel, H.A. , Wolferth, C.C. , Jeffers, W.A. , Hafkenschiel , J.H. , and Lukens, F.D.W. : Subtotal adrenalectomy in the treatment of patients with severe essential hypertension . Ann. Surg. 134: 551, 1951.

Barker, W. F., Yuhl, E. T., Beal, J. M., Stirrett, L. A., and Hill, M. R., Jr.: Unpublished observation.

Warner, H.R. : The frequency-dependent nature of blood pressure regulation by the carotid sinus studied with an electric analog. Circ. Res. 6: 35, 1958.

Schwartz, S.I. , Griffith, L.S.C. , Neistadt, A. , and Hagfors, N. : Chronic carotid sinus nerve stimulation in the treatment of essential hypertension. Am. J. Surg. 114: 5, 1967.

McGubbin, J.W. , Green, J.H. , and Page, I.H. : Baroreceptor function in chronic renal hypertension. Circ. Res. 4: 205, 1956.

Resnicoff, S.A. , Harris, J.P. , Hampsey, J.P. , and Schwartz , S.I. : Effects of sinus nerve stimulation on arterial resistance and flow patterns of specific vascular beds. Surgery 66: 755, 1969.

Braunwald, E. , Epstein, S.E. , Slick, G. , Wechsler, A. , and Blaunwald, N.S. : Relief of angina pectoris by electrical stimulation of the carotid sinus nerve. N. Engl. J. Med. 277: 1278, 1967.