Abstract
Summary
1. Significant amounts of renin have been detected in the blood of 1 patient with eclampsia, 2 with severe preeclampsia, and 1 with fulminating acute glomerulonephritis using a modification of the method of Leloir et al. 4 2. No renin has been found in the blood of patients with milder degrees of toxemia of pregnancy and acute glomerulonephritis, nor of patients with chronic hypertension of all degrees of severity. 3. The relation of these observations to those on animals with experimental renal hypertension is discussed.
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