Case of a small aneurysm of the first part of the arch of the aorta, opening into the pulmonary artery and conus arteriosus of the right ventricle : with remarks on the general subject / by Sir William T. Gairdner, M.D., K.C.B., F.R.S., Physician to the Western Infirmary, Glasgow.

  • Gairdner, W. T. (William Tennant), Sir, 1824-1907.
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[1899]
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Credit: Case of a small aneurysm of the first part of the arch of the aorta, opening into the pulmonary artery and conus arteriosus of the right ventricle : with remarks on the general subject / by Sir William T. Gairdner, M.D., K.C.B., F.R.S., Physician to the Western Infirmary, Glasgow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CASE OF A SMALL ANEURYSM OF THE FIRST PART OF THE ARCH OF THE AORTA, OPENING INTO THE PULMONARY ARTERY AND CONUS ARTERIOSUS OF THE RIGHT VENTRICLE; WITH REMARKS ON THE GENERAL SUBJECT. By SIR WILLIAM T. GAIRDNER, M.D., K.C.B., F.R.S., Physician to the Western Infirmary, Glasgow. In the last published volume (vi.) of the Transactions of the Glasgow Clinical ancl Pathological Society, under date 10th May, 1897,1 I brought before the Society a collection of specimens from the Glasgow Museums, including all which I found there available as “ illustrating aneurysms of the arch of the aorta which either opened into, or pressed upon, the vena cava superior, or the pulmonary artery.” The collection amounted to twelve cases in all (not all strictly conformable to the title), and it left upon the mind the general impression that such cases are not only rare, but that even when thus collocated they do not contribute very much, in most instances, towards the precise clinical history and diagnosis of such lesions ; except indeed in one case which I myself communi- cated to the Lancet of 22nd June, 1889, p. 1233, where the opening was into the superior vena cava, with well marked cyanosis and dropsy, and with dilated veins generally limited to the upper part of the body. The diagnosis of aneurysm in this case was not very difficult, and there was even a fact in the history which may have corresponded with the period of the rupture into the vein—viz., a “ feeling as if something had 1 See also Glasgow Medical Journal, 1897, ^ ol. n., p. 120. A