Toxæmia of Pregnancy

The diagnosis and management of hypertension in pregnancy

“…On this evidence the kidney is ischaemic in acute hypertension, and the question to be answered is why? Sophian's (1953) suggestion is that the uterus resists being stretched and that the ischaemia is produced refiexly. To some extent iSophian too has 'been a victim of his own nomenclature in coining the phrase 'Utero-Renal Reflex' for many have shown, amongst them Benjamin and Craig (1961), that it can occur in advanced extrauterine pregnancy.…”