Pulseless Disease and Carotid-Artery Thrombosis

Abstract

ARTERIAL reconstruction by thrombendarterectomy or grafting has been widely and successfully used for obliterative arteriosclerosis of the abdominal aorta and its branches. This has naturally stimulated efforts to apply the same principles to other important arteries similarly involved. In reviewing descriptions of such conditions interfering with the blood supply to the brain and the upper extremities, one frequently encounters the terms "pulseless disease" and "carotid-artery thrombosis."Pulseless DiseaseIn 1908 Takayusu,¹ a Japanese ophthalmologist, first reported a syndrome characterized by occlusion of the main arterial trunks from the aortic arch. Since that time several case reports and reviews have appeared . . .