LYMPHOGRAPHIC STUDIES ON PROTEIN-LOSING ENTEROPATHY

O Ishida, K Tamura, H Uchida, C Kuroda

Abstract


Lymphographic studies were made on diseases of
protein-losing in 19 cases, which include 9 cases of
diseases of the digestive canal. 2 cases of constrictive
pericarditis, and 8 cases of protein-losing enteropathy.
Lymphographically in the diseases of the digestive ca-
nal no abnormal findings was detected, but in the con-
strictive pericarditis remarkable dilation and kinking
of the thoracic duct with relatively poor congestion of
the lumbar lymphatic vessels were observed.
In the intestinal lymphangiectasia dysplasia of the
lymphatics, passage disturbance of the thoracic duct
with the congestive lumbar lymphatics, reflux to ab-
dominal organs, oozing of contrast medium into the
intestinal lumen were disclosed.
Also experimentally lymphographic studies in thoracic
duct-ligated dogs revealed the reflux to the mesenterial
lymphatic system causing protein-losing into the intes-
tine.


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