Arteriopathy in Waldenstrom's disease.

Necropsy reports in Waldenstrom's (1944) disease have been few and unenlightening. This is to be expected in so chemical a disorder as the manufacture of abnormally large globulin molecules, an abnormality that seems suited to the congenital causation recently described (Bottura, Ferrari, and Veiga, 1961). The present report gives, therefore, only a brief report of the disease, its purpose being to throw some light on arterial physiology, in which subject the case has constituted a kind of natural experiment.