Pregnancy Following Lumbodorsal Splanchnicectomy for Essential and Malignant Hypertension and Hypertension Associated with Chronic Pyelonephritis

THE prognosis in pregnancy complicated by a pre-existing hypertension with or without renal disease is notoriously poor for both the mother and the infant. Corwin and Herrick,1 , 2 in their classic papers written in 1927, made the following statement:Very few women who begin pregnancy with a blood pressure above 150 systolic or 100 diastolic can go through pregnancy successfully, that is with a living child. It is our opinion moreover, that pregnancy does much to accelerate the progress of chronic cardiovascular disease, that it may bring it out when latent and is to be avoided when the disorder has made . . .