Studies on Congestive Circulatory Failure

Studies in Congestive Heart Failure

As a result of their studies of the respiratory exchange of decompensated cardiac patients during and after exercise, Eppinger, Kisch and Schwarz (1927) concluded that the buffering power of the tissues was diminished. Laszlo (1928) found diminished phosphate content of the cardiac and skeletal muscle of such individuals. Harrison and Pilcher determined oxygen utilization during various degrees...

Studies in Congestive Heart Failure

The cardinal symptoms of heart disease are dyspnea, edema, and pain. The recent important publication of Keefer and Resnik (1928) has done much to remove the subject of cardiac pain from the realm of controversy, and to lead to a better understanding of the mechanism by which it is produced, and hence, to a clearer clinical concept of its significance. Unlike cardiac pain, edema and dyspnea are...

Studies on the blood fibrinolytic system in congestive cardiac failure.

1. The major components of the blood fibrinolytic enzyme system were measured in patients with congestive cardiac failure, in control patients with heart disease but not in failure, and in control subjects without heart disease. 2. Heart disease in the absence of failure was associated with an increase in fibrinogen, fibrin degradation products and a,-antitrypsin, but not with any alteration of...

Muscular dystrophy; catheterization studies indicating latent congestive heart failure.

Hepatic abnormalities in congestive heart failure; needle biopsy studies.

Needle biopsies of the liver were performed on 30 patients with heart failure and correlated with clinical features and biochemical liver function studies. Hepatic biopsy served as a useful adjunct to other methods in deciding the status of the liver in this group. Type of heart disease, degree of heart failure and length of heart failure could not be correlated with the observed histology. Nei...