Phlebitis and thrombosis / by Warrington Haward.

  • Haward, Warrington.
Date:
1906
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    Varieties of phlebitis and thrombosis.—Thrombosis in connection with (a) varix ; (b) gout ; (c) syphilis ; (d) enteric fever ; (e) typhus fever ; (/) chlorosis ; (g) influenza; (h) pneumonia ; (i) appendicitis ; (j) gastric ulcer and other abdominal diseases.—‘ Idiopathic 5 throm bosis.—Preference of venous thrombosis for left lower limb. Thrombosis of upper limb. Pulmonary embolism and thrombosis. Symptoms of non-infective phlebitis and thrombosis.—Explanation of occurrence or absence of oedema.—Results of venous obstruction and obliteration.—Obliteration of venae cavae. Leaving now the cases of undoubted septic origin, we come to the consideration of a class in which the phlebitis is of quite different character, and of which the dangers are of a quite different kind. Many of these undoubtedly depend upon changes in the blood which favour the occurrence of thrombosis, to which the phlebitis is secondary. It seems possible that in some of the diseases with which venous thrombosis is associated, toxic or other chemical changes in the blood may affect the nutrition of the leucocytes and red corpuscles, or favour the pro- duction and increase of the blood-plates, and thus, aided by an enfeebled circulation, lead to the formation of a thrombus. Professor Osier1 has observed that in acute fevers the 1 Osier, ‘ Cartwright Lectures,5 op. tit., p. 365. 3i
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