Alternate technique for pulmonary arteriography

Importance of clinical assessment in selecting patients for pulmonary arteriography.

A recent reporti indicates an exceedingly high incidence rate (73 percent) of negative pulmonary arteriograms in patients with suspected pulmonary embolism. All of these patients had a “suitable clinical history,” hypoxemia and positive perfusion scans. In view of this apparent failure of clinical evaluation and noninvasive tests, it was concluded that overdiagnosis and overtreatment can be avo...

Serial arteriography of the dog: a simplified technique.

SERIAL ARTERIOGRAPHY OF THE infradiaphragmatic arterial system of the dog is useful in many chronic experimental situations. There are disadvantages to repeated arterial cannulation to obtain such arteriograms. The small fragile arteries of the dog make Seldinger needle cathet.erization difficult. Direct, exposure of the artery may be utilized but it is time-consuming, and a new site of cannula...

Verbal autopsy: an alternate technique for assigning cause of death.

Technique and Interpretation of Selective Coronary Arteriography in Man.

The radiographic study of coronary arteries in man has been attempted only in recent years. The earliest workers in this sphere employed thoracic aortography, the opaque medium being introduced by needle puncture (Radner, 1945) or retrograde catheterization of the ascending aorta. Lehman, Boyer, and Winter (1959) have reviewed the early results and the subsequent development ofaortography, and ...

Arteriography

In my present paper I wish to consider certain disease processes which have increased in number in the past few years, not only among hospital patients, but also in general practice. The processes in question are due to pathological changes in the blood vessels of the limbs. The patients are chiefly men of relatively young age otherwise fit for work. Their lot is pitiable, not only because of t...