Pulseless disease and carotid-artery thrombosis; surgical considerations.

摘要: ARTERIAL reconstruction by thrombendarterectomy or grafting has been widely and successfully used for obliterative arteriosclerosis of the abdominal aorta its branches. This naturally stimulated efforts to apply same principles other important arteries similarly involved. In reviewing descriptions such conditions interfering with blood supply brain upper extremities, one frequently encounters terms "pulseless disease" "carotid-artery thrombosis." Pulseless Disease 1908 Takayusu,1 a Japanese ophthalmologist, first reported syndrome characterized occlusion main arterial trunks from aortic arch. Since that time several case reports reviews have appeared . . .