ANURIA DUE TO ACUTE OCCLUSION OF THE ARTERY TO A SOLITARY KIDNEY, SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT BY OPERATIVE MEANS.

SEVERAL decades have now elapsed since the classic studies of Janeway1 and Goldblatt et al.2 showed that the production of renal ischemia is followed by the appearance of systemic hypertension. In recent years nephrectomy and renal revascularization have been extensively employed in the relief of hypertension due to renal ischemia. The case reported below illustrates what we believe to be a unique variant of the "Goldblatt syndrome." Four years after the removal of one kidney for hypertension atherosclerotic narrowing of the remaining renal artery led first to hypertension and then to thrombosis and anuria. The patient was successfully treated by . . .