Hypertension and acute rejection processes in allotransplanted kidneys.

  • 1 April 1970
    • journal article
    • Vol. 51  (2) , 149-70
Abstract
Once increased fluid leakage from the vessels of an allotransplanted kidney starts to raise the renal extravascular pressure, certain haemodynamic consequences follow unless further leakage or a comparable rate of leakage is prevented and the most significant of these is renal afferent vasoconstriction. The changes within the allotransplanted kidney leading to the onset of vaso-constriction are described.