STUDIES OF THE FACTORS CONCERNED IN EDEMA FORMATION. II. THE HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE IN THE CAPILLARIES DURING EDEMA FORMATION IN RIGHT HEART FAILURE
Authors: George Fahr, Irving Ershler
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1941)

Article1 November 1941STUDIES OF THE FACTORS CONCERNED IN EDEMA FORMATION. II. THE HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE IN THE CAPILLARIES DURING EDEMA FORMATION IN RIGHT HEART FAILUREGEORGE FAHR, M.D., IRVING ERSHLER, M.D.GEORGE FAHR, M.D., IRVING ERSHLER, M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-15-5-798 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptOne often hears eminent clinicians state that cardiac edema is due to increased permeability of the walls of the capillaries consequent to oxygen deficiency or to stasis within these vessels. This, despite the fact that not infrequently the oxygen content of the venous blood from the edematous limb shows no very marked reduction; and marked reduction in oxygen content of the venous blood as in the cyanotic group of congenital heart disease, may not be associated with edema throughout a period of many years. Even more marked degrees of oxygen reduction are far from the anoxemia levels at which capillary...Bibliography1. LANDIS EM: Micro-injection studies of capillary permeability. III. The effect of lack of oxygen on the permeability of the capillary wall to fluid and to plasma proteins, Am. Jr. Physiol., 1928, lxxxiii, 528. CrossrefGoogle Scholar2. STARLING EH: The fluids of the body, 1909, Keener, Chicago. Google Scholar3. STARLING EH: On the absorption of fluids from the connective tissue spaces, Jr. Physiol., 1895-96, xix, 312. Google Scholar4. SCHADE H: Ueber Quellungsphysiologie und Oedementstehung, Ergebn. d. inn. Med. u. Kinderh., 1927, xxxii, 425-463. Google Scholar5. KERKHOF AC: Plasma colloid osmotic pressure as a factor in edema formation and absorption, ANN. INT. MED., 1937, xi, 867. Google Scholar6. LANDIS EM: Micro-injection studies of capillary blood pressure in human skin, Heart, 1930, xv, 209-228. Google Scholar7. KERKHOF AC 5 Google Scholar8. KERKHOF AC 5 Google Scholar9. KERKHOF AC: Minute volume determinations in mitral stenosis during auricular fibrillation and after restoration of normal rhythm, Am. Heart Jr., 1936, xi, 206. CrossrefGoogle Scholar10. PETERSPAYNE JSA: Serum proteins in heart disease, Jr. Clin. Invest., 1932, xi, 103. Google Scholar11. SCHADE H: Onkotischer Druck und Oedementstehung, Ztschr. f. klin. Med., 1924, c, 370. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Binghamton, New York*Received for publication October 28, 1940.From the Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota and Minneapolis General Hospital.†These data will be published in the near future in a paper by Fahr and Koschnitzke. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byThe insulin sensitiser pioglitazone does not influence skin microcirculatory function in patients with type 2 diabetes treated with insulinThe Microcirculation in Diabetes MellitusCapillaroscopy and the measurement of capillary pressurePeripheral microvascular parameters in the nephrotic syndromeThe problem of defining heart failureThe Role of the Blood Pressure in the Mechanism of Congestive Cardiac FailureCongestive cardiac failure: central role of the arterial blood pressure.Noninvasive method for estimating the mean capillary pressure and pre- and postcapillary resistance ratio in human fingersHypovolemia and hypotension complicating management of acute cardiogenic pulmonary edemaLocal Microcirculation in Chronic Venous Incompetence and Leg UlcersVital CapillaroscopyProtein Content in Lymph and Edema Fluids in Congestive Heart FailureDistribution and Transcapillary Exchange of Albumin in Congestive Heart FailureThe mechanism of heart failurePathogenesis of peripheral cardiac edemaOLIGURIA IN BLACKWATER FEVERAnuria: With special reference to renal failure in blackwater fever, incompatible transfusions, and crush injuries 1 November 1941Volume 15, Issue 5Page: 798-810KeywordsBloodCapillariesCongenital heart diseaseEdemaForecastingHeart failureHospital medicineHypoxiaOxygen ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 November 1941 PDF downloadLoading ...