Key result
Visceral or peripheral embolic disease occurs at average age 60 with slight female predominance.
Why the study?
Embolic disease is a poorly understood emergency with delayed recognition and varied, sometimes harmful, treatment by general surgeons and practitioners.
Observational (n=85)
This historical case series describes the demographic profile of patients presenting with visceral or peripheral arterial embolism between 1934 and 1952.
Historical demographics warrant no current clinical use; leaves open whether age/sex patterns have shifted in modern cohorts.
EMBOLIC disease is not an uncommon entity. It is, perhaps, a poorly understood emergency, as may be witnessed by its delayed recognition and by its varied and even harmful treatment, both by the general surgeon and by the general practitioner. The present study is comprised of a survey of 85 patients admitted to the University Hospitals over an 18-year period from 1934 to 1952, whose conditions were diagnosed as visceral or peripheral embolic disease. Patients with embolism primarily to the brain, heart, and lungs were excluded. The recent advances in cardiac and peripheral vascular surgery offer encouraging aspects to the treatment of this condition and necessitate a more complete evaluation of its basic clinicopathology. INCIDENCE Of the 85 patients admitted during an 18-year period, there was only a slightly higher incidence in women. Thirty-eight of the patients were men and 47 werewomen. The average age was 60 years; the
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John D. Des Prez (1953) conducted an observational in Visceral or peripheral embolic disease (n=85). Visceral or peripheral embolic disease was evaluated. A survey of 85 patients with visceral or peripheral embolic disease found an average age of 60 years and a slightly higher incidence in women (55.3%).
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