Arterial Hypertension and Section of the Splanchnic Nerves

The Medical and Surgical Treatment of Hypertension

“…The results in the first 40 patients operated upon from I935 to I938 by the Peet procedure have been published in i94o. 10 We now wish to present the status of these same patients as determined in 1947-i948. There was a 20 per cent mortality within the first two weeks chiefly through failure to maintain adequate operative and postoperative arterial pressure.…”