AN ARTICLE CONTRIBUTED TO AN ANNIVERSARY VOLUME IN HONOR OF DOCTOR JOSEPH HERSEY PRATT
Authors: C. SIDNEY BURWELL
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1938)

Article1 January 1938AN ARTICLE CONTRIBUTED TO AN ANNIVERSARY VOLUME IN HONOR OF DOCTOR JOSEPH HERSEY PRATTA COMPARISON OF THE PRESSURES IN ARM VEINS AND FEMORAL VEINS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO CHANGES DURING PREGNANCY*C. SIDNEY BURWELL, M.D., F.A.C.P.C. SIDNEY BURWELL, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-11-7-1305 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptKnowledge of the general level of venous pressure may be usefully applied to the evaluation of cardiac failure and of pericardial obstruction and it may sometimes serve as a guide to the management of these conditions. These applications are widely known and practised. This communication is concerned, not with the general level of venous pressure, but with the study and utilization of local venous pressures in the understanding and description of disease. My colleagues and I were led to make the observations here reported by certain phenomena encountered during our study of pregnant women.1During the physical examination of such...Bibliography1. BURWELLSTRAYHORNFLICKINGERCORLETTBOWERMANKENNEDY CSWDDMWEPJA: Studies of the circulation during pregnancy. (To be published.) Google Scholar2. MORITZV. TABORA FD: Über eine Methode, beim Menschen den Druck in oberflächenlichen Venen exakt zu bestimmen, Deutsch. Arch. f. klin. Med., 1910, xcviii,, 475. Google Scholar3. RUNGE H: Ueber den Venendruck in Schwangerschaft, Geburt, und Wochenbett, Arch. f. Gynäk., 1924, xxii, 142. CrossrefGoogle Scholar4. FERRISWILKINS EBRW: The clinical value of comparative measurements of the pressure in the femoral and cubital veins, Am. Heart Jr., 1937, xiii, 431. CrossrefGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAuthors: C. SIDNEY BURWELL, M.D., F.A.C.P.Affiliations: Boston, Massachusetts*Read in part at the meeting of the Association of American Physicians, Atlantic City, New Jersey, May 5, 1937.From the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and the Medical Service of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byVulvar Varicosities: A ReviewThe Effect of Pregnancy on the Lower-limb Venous System of Women with Varicose VeinsManagement of heart disease in pregnancyCirculatory dynamics of pregnancyCirculatory dynamics of pregnancyTHE MECHANICAL EFFECTS OF THE GRAVID UTERUS IN LATE PREGNANCY*The Inferior Vena Cavogram in PregnancyINFERIOR VENA CAVAL PRESSURE IN LATE PREGNANCYPuerperal Thrombophlebitis: Prevention and TreatmentCHANGES IN LIMB VOLUME AND IN VENOUS INFUSION PRESSURES CAUSED BY PREGNANCYCatheterization studies of cardiac hemodynamics in normal pregnant women with reference to left ventricular workSaphenous phlebectomy for varicose veins during pregnancyOBSTRUCTION OF THE SUPERIOR VENA CAVA: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE AND REPORT OF TWO PERSONAL CASES*FLOYD T. MCINTIRE, M.D., F.A.C.P., EDWIN M. SYKES JR., M.D.Influences of posture on the urinary tract in pregnancyPractical Considerations of Venous PressureThe Aetiology of the Toxaemias of Late PregnancyThe relationship of the estrogens and proges-terone to the edema of normal and toxemic pregnancyAntecubital and femoral venous pressure in normal and toxemic pregnancyEdema in pre-eclampsia and eclampsiaThe effect of mediastinal lesions on pressures in the antecubital and femoral veins 1 January 1938Volume 11, Issue 7Page: 1305-1310KeywordsHeart failureHospital medicineMedical servicesPregnancy ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 January 1938 PDF downloadLoading ...