The Relationship of "Chronic Pyelonephritis" to Chronic Potassium Deficiency
- ROBERT C. MUEHRCKE, M.D., F.A.C.P.; and
- J. CHARLES MCMILLAN, M.D.
- Requests for reprints should be addressed to R. C. Muehrcke, M.D., Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital, 1753 Congress Parkway, Chicago 12, Illinois.
Excerpt
Preliminary observations made in 1957, on patients chronically deficient of potassium suggested that chronic pyelonephritis was one sequel of chronic potassium deficiency (1, 2). At that time studies were also made of slides of renal tissue from such patients, which were sent to us by many colleagues in various parts of the world. In most sections "pyelonephritis" was noted. As a result of these observations, it does not seem to be unreasonable to postulate that the persistence of the multiple functional and structural derangement (Table 1, 1-20) noted in kidneys of man and animals with acute potassium deficiency might form
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Acknowledgment
We would like to thank C. L. Pirani, M.D., for help with the pathological material. We are indebted to G. G. Jackson, M.D., for his aid in the many bacteriological studies. In particular, we would like to thank Professor M. D. Milne and R. M. Kark, M.D., for their interest and encouragement.
Summario in Interlingua
Un detaliate clinico-pathologic e correlative studio esseva interprendite in 15 patientes con chronic carentia de kalium. Dece-quatro del patientes habeva un o plure attaccos clinic de pyelonephritis acute. A base de un studio morphologic, le presentia de pyelonephritis chronic esseva constatate in novem patientes, fibrosis interstitial in cinque, e hydronephrosis in un. Iste observationes indica que alterationes morphologic de fibrosis interstitial o de pyelonephritis chronic pote complicar un chronic carentia de kalium.
Article and Author Information
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From the Renal and Nutrition Unit, Division of Medicine, Presbyterian-St. Luke's Hospital; from the Departments of Medicine and Pathology, University of Illinois, College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois; and from the Department of Medicine, West Suburban Hospital, Oak Park, Illinois.
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This work was supported by contract No. DA-49-007-MD-637 from the Surgeon General's Office, U. S. Army and by grant No. H-5529 from the United States Public Health Service, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
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- Received January 19, 1963.
- Accepted June 12, 1963.
- Copyright ©, 1963, by The American College of Physicians
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