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- Stroke
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- One The Ventricles
- Two The Force of Blood
- Three Congestion
- Four Forgotten Forms of Apoplexy
- Five Haemorrhage
- Six Ramollissement
- Seven Thrombosis and Embolism
- Eight No Man’s Land: The Neck Arteries
- Nine Lacunes
- Ten Stroke Warnings
- Eleven Saccular Aneurysms
- Twelve Cerebral Venous Thrombosis
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Index
Seven - Thrombosis and Embolism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2023
- Stroke
- Stroke
- Copyright page
- Epigraph
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- One The Ventricles
- Two The Force of Blood
- Three Congestion
- Four Forgotten Forms of Apoplexy
- Five Haemorrhage
- Six Ramollissement
- Seven Thrombosis and Embolism
- Eight No Man’s Land: The Neck Arteries
- Nine Lacunes
- Ten Stroke Warnings
- Eleven Saccular Aneurysms
- Twelve Cerebral Venous Thrombosis
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Index
Summary
In an early part of his career, Virchow established that intravascular clotting is unrelated to inflammation, and also that clots can be dislodged and carried along, until they become stuck (embolism). The young Charcot, on reading this, proposed embolism as the cause in some hitherto unexplained post-mortem findings; wider acceptance took time.
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- StrokeA History of Ideas, pp. 222 - 254Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023