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PERIPHERAL VASCULAR OCCLUSION DUE TO HEMORRHAGE IN HEMOPHILIA*
- STANLEY R. MCCAMPBELL, M.D.New York, N. Y. ; and
- CARL K. NEEDY, M.D.Fishkill, N. Y.
- Requests for reprints should be addressed to Stanley R. McCampbell, M.D., The New York Hospital, 525 East Sixty-eighth Street, New York 21, N. Y.
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INTRODUCTION Hemorrhage into soft tissue secondary to hemophilia is a rare cause of peripheral vascular occlusion. Seven cases of hemophilia with this complication leading to gangrene have been previously reported.1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 10, 11 Operative treatment was used in all and resulted in loss of either life or limb. Newer methods of therapy are now available and allow a more rational and more conservative approach. The present case of hemophilia is reported not only for its rare complication but also to demonstrate the successful outcome of conservative management. To our knowledge, it is the first reported case of
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Summario in Interlingua
Es reportate le caso de un hemophiliaco mascule de 22 annos de etate qui disveloppava un occlusion arterial peripheric in le gamba dextere, secundari a un hematoma traumatic. Le tractamento esseva conservative. Illo consisteva de calor reflexe, compressas de glacie, elevation del capite del lecto, e Priscolina, insimul con plure infusiones de plasma congelate fresc. Le restablimento esseva gradual sed complete, e nulle intervention chirurgic esseva effectuate.
Le revista del litteratura indica que isto es un complication rar in casos de hemophilia. Solmente septe simile casos ha previemente essite reportate. Illos omnes esseva tractate chirurgicamente, e le resultatos esseva uniformemente pauco bon. Ex le total de septe patientes, tres moriva e le alteres perdeva le membros in question per amputation. Viste iste pauco incoragiante experientia in casos comparabile al nostre, nos nos sentiva stimulate a essayar un therapia conservative pro le occlusion arterial e a utilisar le plus moderne drogas que es disponibile pro combatter le symptomas hemorrhagic in casos de hemophilia. Le excellente resultatos obtenite in le caso del presente reporto pare indicar que le supra-describite therapia es valide e debe esser prendite in consideration in futur problemas de ist genere.
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↵* Received for publication March 21, 1956.
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From the Second (Cornell) Medical Division, Bellevue Hospital, New York, N. Y., and the Department of Medicine, Cornell University Medical College.
