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J. M. SPITZER, M.D.; NORMAN ROSENTHAL, M.D.; MURRAY WEINER, M.D.; SHEPARD SHAPIRO, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1949;84(3):440-444.

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THE MOST dreaded complication of venous thrombosis is pulmonary embolism, for which the mortality rate is about 15 per cent.¹ The need is for additional data which may be of help in understanding the thromboembolic phenomena and, thus, in reducing the danger. Accordingly, a necropsy study was made in the hope that it would yield information for further clinical and laboratory evaluation.

Knauer² reported that the incidence of fatal pulmonary embolism in a series of 33,558 autopsies was 2.5 per cent. Barnes³ estimated that 34,000 persons die of pulmonary embolism each year in this country. Hunter and his co-workers⁴ observed that 52.7 per cent of older people confined to bed evidenced thrombosis of the deep veins of the leg. In the necropsies reported by them, pulmonary embolism accounted for 3.13 per cent of all deaths; the authors concluded that the most important single cause of thrombosis . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Third (New York University) Division, Goldwater Memorial Hospital, Welfare Island, and the Department of Medicine, New York University College of Medicine.

Footnotes
Read at the meeting of the New York Pathological Society, New York Academy of Medicine, Dec. 20, 1948.

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