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Fatal complications of thrombo-angiitis obliterans: A clinical study
SELECTED
125
ABSTRACTS
edema, atrophy, lymphocytic infiltration, inflammation and thrombosis of the vasa vasorum were noted in all but one case. A definite correlation was found between the presence of wallerian degeneration and the clinical syndrome of ischemic neuritis. The presence of these degenerative changes proximal to the site of nerve section or alcohol injection explains the failure to relieve pain with these procedures. NAIDE.
Saleeby, 969,
Eli 1938.
R., and
McCarthy,
Thoracic and abdominal treatment of syphilis.
Patrick
Aneurysms.
A.:
aneurysms
can
Pennsylvania
be prevented
The Matas obliterative endoaneurysmorrhaphy cure for external aneurysms.
offers
by the
early
best
M.
and
available
J. 41:
intelligent means
of
The present treatment of internal aneurysms is unsatisfactory. The Babcock procedure of end-to-end anastomosis of the common carotid artery and internal jugular vein offers the best available means of alleviating the symptoms of intrathoracie and subclavian aneurysms untreatable by other means. There ,have been no instances the Babcock procedure.
of rupture
of an intrathoracie
aneurysm
following AUTHOR.
Cleland, J. B.: 1: 847, 1938.
Periarteritis
Nodosa;
Report
of Two
New
Cases.
M.
J. Australia
There seems to be a definite relationship between periarteritis nodosa and rheumatic fever, and it is possible that the former disease is in some cases an allergic response to the agent of rheumatic fever. Three cases of periarteritis nodosa were found in 4,000 autopsy cases in two Australian hospitals. One of these three cases presented rheumatic vegetations on the mitral valve. Allusion is made to previous cases with associated rheumatic manifestations. The cause of periarteritis nodosa, of course, has not been proved. MONTGORZERY.
Fatherree, T. J., and Hines, E. A., Jr.: Obliterans: A Clinical Study. Proc.
Fatal Staff
Complications Meet., Mayo
of Thrombo-Angiitis Clin. 13: 342, 1938.
The cases are reported of twenty-two individuals with thromboangiitis obliterans who died, including nine on whom necropsy was performed. In sixteen cases, or 73 per cent of the group, extraperipheral vascular lesions played a dominant role as the cause of death. Four of these deaths followed operation. Coronary thrombosis is by far the most common type of peripheral lesion producing death in cases of thromboangiitis obliterans. In none of the post-mortem cases was a lesion found in the visceral arteries which was typical of the pathologic changes described by Buerger. AUTHORS.
Lewis, Thomas: Raynaud’s SC. 3: 321, 1938.
Disease and Preganglionic
Sympathectomy.
Clin.
Six unselected cases of Raynaud’s disease have been examined shortly after preganglionie sympathectomy. Observation of these cases shows that preganglionic sympathectomy does not bring the fingers to a common state; it relieves in all cases, but a local abnormality remains, and this can be displayed in a measure that is re-
125
ABSTRACTS
edema, atrophy, lymphocytic infiltration, inflammation and thrombosis of the vasa vasorum were noted in all but one case. A definite correlation was found between the presence of wallerian degeneration and the clinical syndrome of ischemic neuritis. The presence of these degenerative changes proximal to the site of nerve section or alcohol injection explains the failure to relieve pain with these procedures. NAIDE.
Saleeby, 969,
Eli 1938.
R., and
McCarthy,
Thoracic and abdominal treatment of syphilis.
Patrick
Aneurysms.
A.:
aneurysms
can
Pennsylvania
be prevented
The Matas obliterative endoaneurysmorrhaphy cure for external aneurysms.
offers
by the
early
best
M.
and
available
J. 41:
intelligent means
of
The present treatment of internal aneurysms is unsatisfactory. The Babcock procedure of end-to-end anastomosis of the common carotid artery and internal jugular vein offers the best available means of alleviating the symptoms of intrathoracie and subclavian aneurysms untreatable by other means. There ,have been no instances the Babcock procedure.
of rupture
of an intrathoracie
aneurysm
following AUTHOR.
Cleland, J. B.: 1: 847, 1938.
Periarteritis
Nodosa;
Report
of Two
New
Cases.
M.
J. Australia
There seems to be a definite relationship between periarteritis nodosa and rheumatic fever, and it is possible that the former disease is in some cases an allergic response to the agent of rheumatic fever. Three cases of periarteritis nodosa were found in 4,000 autopsy cases in two Australian hospitals. One of these three cases presented rheumatic vegetations on the mitral valve. Allusion is made to previous cases with associated rheumatic manifestations. The cause of periarteritis nodosa, of course, has not been proved. MONTGORZERY.
Fatherree, T. J., and Hines, E. A., Jr.: Obliterans: A Clinical Study. Proc.
Fatal Staff
Complications Meet., Mayo
of Thrombo-Angiitis Clin. 13: 342, 1938.
The cases are reported of twenty-two individuals with thromboangiitis obliterans who died, including nine on whom necropsy was performed. In sixteen cases, or 73 per cent of the group, extraperipheral vascular lesions played a dominant role as the cause of death. Four of these deaths followed operation. Coronary thrombosis is by far the most common type of peripheral lesion producing death in cases of thromboangiitis obliterans. In none of the post-mortem cases was a lesion found in the visceral arteries which was typical of the pathologic changes described by Buerger. AUTHORS.
Lewis, Thomas: Raynaud’s SC. 3: 321, 1938.
Disease and Preganglionic
Sympathectomy.
Clin.
Six unselected cases of Raynaud’s disease have been examined shortly after preganglionie sympathectomy. Observation of these cases shows that preganglionic sympathectomy does not bring the fingers to a common state; it relieves in all cases, but a local abnormality remains, and this can be displayed in a measure that is re-