Blood-pressure observations on patients with relaxed abdominal musculature / Fayette W. Birtch and Thomas G. Inman.

  • Birtch, Fayette W.
Date:
1912
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Credit: Blood-pressure observations on patients with relaxed abdominal musculature / Fayette W. Birtch and Thomas G. Inman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONCLUSIONS 1. It may be normal to have a slight systolic fall on standing after lying in healthy individuals who are not undergoing active muscular training. 2. Patients with relaxed abdominal musculature and enteroptosis, not showing subjective symptoms, will be found to have at least the diastolic sustained in change of position and it may be assumed that the vasomotor mechanism is competent. 3. Patients with relaxed abdominal musculature and enteroptosis with circulatory symptoms will show both a systolic and a diastolic fall on standing after lying. 4, The neuropathic symptoms found in these cases are not due to the malposition of the viscera nor can they be placed among the neuroses. They are entirely dependent on the cerebral anemia. The circulatory changes, while the cause of the symptoms, are not the primary etiologic factors, but are second to the great muscular atony, the cause of which is yet unknown. St. Luke’s Tape echroth Building.
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