The Temporary Thrombotic State

NOT infrequently the physician is confronted with a patient in whom massive recurrent pulmonary infarction occurs without an evident source for emboli or a recognized cause for local thrombosis. The management of this syndrome and its differentiation from other conditions, particularly pneumonia, is made difficult by the lack of a reliable clinical or laboratory test for the incipient or actively thrombotic state. It is the purpose of this report to present a concept — "the temporary thrombotic state" — that has proved helpful in the treatment of recurrent thromboembolism and pulmonary infarction; secondly, to summarize briefly the important diagnostic clinical, . . .