The Rôle of Congestion (Portal Hypertension) in So-Called Banti's Syndrome

During the past several years in the Spleen Clinic of the Presbyterian Hospital there have been collected well studied cases of splenomegaly of all types. Many of these were readily classified in one of the several established disease entities. This presentation is an effort to abstract some order out of the large remaining number of cases that had been grouped under the inclusive caption of Banti's disease. As the study developed it became apparent, as it had to many others before us, that we were not dealing with a sequence of clinical and pathologic features as described by Banti. Instead we had an apparently heterogeneous group of cases that presented certain similar characteristics and that shall henceforth be grouped under the name of Banti's syndrome. As a result of this investigation we shall consider the possibility of a common etiologic factor operating in all these different cases to produce a