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A REVIEW

A. C. IVY, Ph.D., M.D.

J Am Med Assoc. 1930;95(15):1068-1072.

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Medical history reveals that the problem of the jaundiced patient is an old one. It occupied a prominent place in ancient Hebrew and Arabian medicine, and this symposium signifies that the problem is not yet solved. Although tremendous progress has been made in the surgery of obstructive jaundice, the same cannot be said regarding the physiologic disturbances. Considerable work has been done and progress made, but the problem has not received the attention it deserves.

The physiologic disturbances incident to obstructive jaundice are too numerous to list and to discuss even briefly in a short review. One can consider only those disturbances which appear to be the most important in the light of present knowledge. That the physiologic disturbances are numerous and complex is to be expected when one considers that bile retained in the biliary passages not only may pass into the blood and thus influence many organs but . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHICAGO

From the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, Northwestern University Medical School.

Footnotes
Read before the Section on Surgery, General and Abdominal, at the Eighty-First Annual Session of the American Medical Association, Detroit, June 26, 1930.

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