[Hemosorption in the combined treatment of patients with symptomatic malignant hypertension]

The paper is concerned with the results of multiple modality therapy of 35 patients with symptomatic malignant renal hypertension. Hemosorption on carbon of CKH rank was employed as one of the therapeutic modalities. Hemosorption resulted in a considerable decrease in arterial pressure, improved a picture of the fundus of the eye, the level of aldosterone in the blood returned to normal, and in the patients with the first signs of disorders of nitrogen excretory function it resulted in its normalization. Only in the patients with terminal renal failure did hemosorption result in a temporary hypotensive and detoxication effect.