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The Effect of Venesection
The correlation of venous, spinal fluid, and arterial pressure, before and after venesection, was studied in a series of twenty-two cases of failure of the left heart and thirteen cases of failure of the right heart. These cases were observed clinically with reference to the improvement after venesection alone, and also after venesection in combination with the removal of twenty cubic centimete...
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A case of primary haemochromatosis presenting as an obscure congestive cardiomyopathy in a young man is described. No other clinical evidence of haemochromatosis was present. Substantial improvement followed venesection. The cardiac manifestations of haemochromatosis are reviewed. It is suggested that the diagnosis must be excluded in any male patient with cardiac disease of undetermined aetiol...
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Calf blood flow at rest and during postocclusive reactive hyperaemia was measured using an electrocardiogram-triggered plethysmograph in 14 patients with polycythaemia (nine with primary disease and five with polycythaemia secondary to cyanotic heart disease) before and after a course of venesection. The mean packed cell volume was reduced from 0.57 to 0.47, and whole-blood viscosity fell by 50...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet
سال: 1866
ISSN: 0140-6736
DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(02)77613-7