Oedema in Graves' disease / by Arthur Maude.

  • Maude, Arthur.
Date:
1891
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    THE PRACTITIONER. DECEMBER, 1891. ©rigmaJ ®0mmimkattons* (EDEMA IN GRAVES’ DISEASE. BY ARTHUR MAUDE, M.R.C.S. Westerham, Kent. (Edema is a very common phenomenon in Graves’ disease, and affects several sites, apparently from several causes. Slight swelling of the ankles and feet has been present in one-third of the cases in which I have sought for it. Dr Hector Mackenzie, in his excellent lectures on this disease, states that many of his patients complained of slight swelling of the feet towards night, but in all instances save two he found some good cause to account for it, such as varicose veins.1 Mari^ 2 noted oedema of the legs in two cases, but the only important paper I can discover on the subject is Millard’s thesis, Les (Eddmes dans la Maladie de Basedow (Paris, 1888), in which he has collected ten cases. Dropsy in this disease has three varieties. I. (Edema of cardiac origin.—These cases have no characters distinguishing them from those of ordinary cardiac dropsy, as presented in mitral disease; in fact, they may be due to mitral disease co-existing with Graves’ disease. Organic valvular dis- 1 Lancet, ii. 1890, p. 545. 2 Les Formes frustes de la Maladie de Basedow, 1883. The Practitioner.—Yol. xlvii. No. 6. D D '/»«R