Arterial Embolism

Arterial air embolism.

The incidence and the outcome of systemic air embolism in 340 consecutive patients who underwent cardiac surgery under cardiopulmonary bypass in this unit for congenital defects of the cardiac septa and diseases involving the aortic and mitral valves have been studied. This was thought to have occurred in 40 patients, of whom 10 died. The distribution of air embolism according to the types of o...

Arterial Embolism in the Limbs

Material The views expressed in this paper are based on a study of clinical and morbid anatomical material, personally observed by the writer during the period I938 to I954. It comprises: (i) Clinical records of a series of 122 separate incidents of limb embolism in 69 patients. (2) Records of 48 autopsies on patients of the clinical series. (3) An additional series of 269 patients suffering fr...

The pathophysiology of cerebral arterial gas embolism.

Bubbles are introduced to the arterial circulation in many patients undergoing cardiac surgical procedures, and some of these distribute to the cerebral vessels. Larger bubbles may arrest in cerebral arterioles, causing ischemia and neuronal injury in the downstream territory. Smaller bubbles may redistribute through the cerebral circulation, but this is not a benign event. Their passage may ca...

Arterial bullet embolism following abdominal gunshot wounds.

Fibrinolysin Therapy in Arterial Thrombo-embolism.

Two cases of ha-mophilus influenzameningitis have been described who showed lack of response to the routine antibiotics. These two cases did not respond to the oral Penbritin because of vomiting and were treated with intramuscular and intrathecal Penbritin with successful results as shown by biochemical and clinical responses. It should be stressed that neither of these preparations of Penbriti...