This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (9)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

The Spleen-Lung Ether Time

VICENTE GILSANZ, M.D.; AGUSTIN VERGARA, M.D.; MATEO GALLEGO, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1957;99(3):428-430.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

The methods used up to the present to calculate the speed of the portal circulation have been the following: Serial splenoportography, the injection into the spleen of radioactive sodium and subsequently detecting its absorption by the liver, and, finally, the method of Newman and Cohen,³ which consists of the injection of ether vapors into the rectum, after which the time it took to detect the smell of ether from the patient's breath is measured.

The first method, the splenoportography, not only enables one to calculate the circulation time but also gives us an x-ray picture of the portal tree. The second method mentioned is a more exact one but requires a more elaborate technique, which is not easily carried out in the ordinary practice. Lastly, the procedure of Cohen and Newman has obvious inconveniences; also, one cannot be sure if the ether is readily absorbed by the intestine. Even . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Madrid, Spain

From the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Madrid (Prof. Dr. Gilsanz).

Footnotes
Submitted for publication June 14, 1956.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?