J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 55(2): 175-180, 1954
Original article
STUDIES ON BANTI SYNDROME
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I. Surgical Depertment, Tokyo University Medical School Aisuke KABURAGI |
(1) The so-called "anemia producing substance (Tomoda)" was not proved in the patient serum even by the same method used by Prof. Tomoda.
(2) The grade of the portal hypertensrion was neither parallel to the histological changes of the liver, such as the fibrosis or the reconstruction of lobules and so on nor to clinical signs, such as the blood picture, the liver function tests or splenomegaly, etc.
(3) The narrowing of the hepatic veins in the rabbit did not produce any hematological changes of Banti type.
(4) Splenectomy, in all cases with Banti syndrome, could improve the hematological changes including the circulating total blood volume permanently, but could not prove to be effective for recovering the liver function and lowering the portal hypertension.
(author's abstract)
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