HYPERTENSIVE CEREBRAL SWELLING, A CHARACTERISTIC CLINICO-PATHOLOGIC SYNDROME
Authors: I M SCHEINKER
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1948)

Article1 March 1948HYPERTENSIVE CEREBRAL SWELLING, A CHARACTERISTIC CLINICO-PATHOLOGIC SYNDROMEI. MARK SCHEINKER, M.D.I. MARK SCHEINKER, M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-28-3-630 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThis presentation aims to analyze the brain findings of only such cases of hypertensive brain disease as are characterized by a sudden onset and rapid progression of the following clinical symptoms and signs: Severe headache, drowsiness, confusion, restlessness and delirium accompanied by signs of increased intracranial pressure, such as elevation of spinal fluid pressure and bilateral papilledema; and occasionally by convulsions, impairment of vision and weakness of extremities. This acute clinical syndrome may last for days and then completely remit, or it may in some instances be the cause of rapid death.Before the pathologic findings characteristic of this condition...Bibliography1. SCHEINKER IM: Zur Histopathogenese der Hirnapoplexie bei Hypertonie. Zugleich ein Beitrag zur Frage der hyalinen Degeneration der Arteriolen und derer Beziehung zu den Sogenannten "Zerebralen Angiospasmen," Monatschr. f. Psychiat. u. Neurol., 1940, cii, 159. Google Scholar2. SCHEINKER IM: Hypertensive disease of the brain, Arch. Path., 1943, xxxvi, 289. Google Scholar3. SCHEINKER IM: Changes in cerebral veins in hypertensive brain disease and their relation to cerebral hemorrhage, Arch. Neurol. and Psychiat., 1945, liv, 395. CrossrefGoogle Scholar4. SCHEINKER IM: Neuropathology in its clinicopathologic aspects, 1947, Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Ill. Google Scholar5. SCHEINKER IM: Cerebral swelling (histopathology, classification and clinical significance of brain edema), Jr. Neurosurg., 1947, iv, 255; Neurosurgical pathology, 1948, Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, Ill. CrossrefGoogle Scholar6. PAL : Gefässkrisen, 1905, Leipzig. Google Scholar7. ALLBUTT C: Diseases of the arteries, including angina pectoris, 1915, The Macmillan Co., London. Google Scholar8. VOLHARD , in MOHR and STOEHELIN'S Handb. d. inn. Med., Berlin, 1918, iii, 1342. Google Scholar9. FISHBERG A: Hypertension and nephritis, 1939, Lea and Febiger, Philadelphia, p. 287. Google Scholar10. KEITHWAGENERKERNOHAN NMHPJW: Syndrome of malignant-hypertension, Arch. Int. Med., 1928, xli, 141. CrossrefGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Cincinnati, Ohio*Received for publication April 21, 1947.From the Laboratory of Neuropathology, Cincinnati General Hospital, and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byNeutrophilic CSF Pleocytosis in Hypertensive EncephalopathyReport of Joint Committee for Stroke Resources. IV. Brain edema in stroke.Paralysis, Incoordination and Involuntary MovementsReferencesHypertonieHypertonieDie Veränderungen des Zentralnervensystems bei NierenkrankheitenMalignant HypertensionThe Psychiatric Manifestations of Early Cerebral Damage in Essential Hypertension 1 March 1948Volume 28, Issue 3Page: 630-641KeywordsBrain diseasesConvulsionsDeliriumHeadachesHospital medicineInflammationNeuropathologyResearch laboratoriesSigns and symptomsVision ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 March 1948 PDF downloadLoading ...