The heart in renal disease.

RECENT advances ill our understanding of the pathologic and functional disturbances of the heart in renal disease have led to more rational and effective therapy. The purpose of this communication is to review this progress. The relation between the renal disease and the cardiovascular disorder is variable. In some instances renal disease is primary, and causes secondary hypertension; these renal diseases are glomerulonephritis, pyelonephritis, polycystic disease. On the other hand renal disease may develop secondarily during the course of essential hypertension, simultaneously with rheumatic heart disease, or during the progress of subacute bacterial endocarditis. In diffuse