On a case of death from hæmorrhage into the pericardium, as a result of rupture of one of three true and circumscribed aneurysms of the coronary artery of the heart : with observations on aneurysm or aneurysmal dilatation as a result of embolism or thrombosis.

  • John Ogle
Date:
[cbetween 1800 and 1899?]
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Credit: On a case of death from hæmorrhage into the pericardium, as a result of rupture of one of three true and circumscribed aneurysms of the coronary artery of the heart : with observations on aneurysm or aneurysmal dilatation as a result of embolism or thrombosis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON A CASE OF DEATH FROM HAEMORRHAGE INTO THE PERICARDIUM, As a result of Rupture of one of three true and circumscribed Aneurysms of the Coronary Artery of the Heart; with Obser- vations on Aneurysm or Aneurysmal Dilatation as a result of Embolism or Thrombosis. I VENTURE to think that the following case will be considered worthy of record, as being an instance of aneurysm in a very unusTial locality, and as probably illustrating a not unimpor- tant point in pathology. In the session of 1856-7, at a meeting of the London Pathological Society,* I suggested the probability of the formation of aneurysm in certain instances (especially in the case of the smaller arteries of the body) as a result of em- bolism or thrombosis of a vessel; and to this subject I drew attention more at length in the Medical Times and Gazette] in the course of last year. I had also previously related to the Pathological Society the case of a boyj in whom was found after death plugging of one of the coronary arteries ♦ See vol. viii. of the Society's Transactions, p. 168, where a case of aneurysm of the superior mesenteric artery is related, from a patient with a softened heart, and having soft recent fibrinous granulations on the heart's valves. t See vol. i. p. 196. % See vol. XV. of the Transactions, p. 15. This patient, aged sixteen, was admitted into the hospital in a state not unlike fever, and died coma- tose. After death, in addition to the state of the coronary artery above described, extravasation of blood into the cerebellum, and also plugging by fibrin of the corresponding cerebellar artery were met with. In this case masses of fibrin were found attached to the edges and surfaces of the mitral valve-flaps, and to the lining membrane of the left auricle of the heart. A false membrane of fibrin also lined the dura mater, which was described in Beale's Archives, No. vi. p. 88.