THE NATURAL HISTORY OF TRANSIENT ISCHAEMIC CEREBRO-VASCULAR ATTACKS.
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF TRANSIENT ISCHAEMIC CEREBRO-VASCULAR ATTACKS.
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短暂性缺血性脑血管发作的自然史。
DOI:
10.1093/oxfordjournals.qjmed.a067022
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1964
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J. Marshall
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作者:
J. Marshall
THE occurrence of short-lived, neurological symptoms and signs in patients with vascular disease has long been recognized. Hunt (1914) in discussing'the role of the carotid arteries in the causation of vascular lesions of the brain'declared that'attacks of threatened hemiplegia and cerebral intermittent claudication are some of the vascular symptoms which should suggest the possibility of carotid obstruction'. Nevertheless, his main interest was to call attention to the fact that disease in the carotid artery could be responsible for lesions in the brain. Similarly Fisher (1951, 1954), though primarily concerned with demonstrating that disease of the carotid artery caused more vascular incidents than had hitherto been suspected, stressed that'prodromal warning in the form of fleeting paralysis, paraesthesiae and dysphasia'can occur. Johnson and Walker (1951) reviewing 101 cases of thrombosis of the internal and common carotid arteries from the literature together with six of their own cases, found that transient neurological disturbances had occurred in 40 per cent, of the patients and that'not infrequently such a series of transient attacks was terminated by a sudden hemiplegia and aphasia'. Hurwitz, Groch, Wright, and McDowell (1959), describing the carotid occlusion syndrome in 57 confirmed cases, found that'transient ischaemic attacks may occur for a year or more without residual defect*. While all these authors clearly recognized t> he occurrence of transient ischaemio attacks in the carotid artery occlusion syndrome, their primary interest was in the effects of the carotid artery occlusion itself, A perusal of the earlier literature concerning disease in the vertebro-basilar system shows the same predominant concern with the anatomical and pathological aspects of the completed lesion. The classical papers of Kubik and Adams (1946) and Biemond (1951) both have this orientation, as does the paper by Denny-Brown and Foley (1952) on the syndrome of the basilar aneurysm. More recently Williams and Wilson (1962) have given a detailed account of the syndromes associated with basilar insufficiency. In 1951, however, a new orientation appeared, Denny-Brown (1951) discussing the management of recurrent cerebro-vascular episodes, introduced a more dynamic factor and suggested that it is' episodic insufficiency in the