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Ortner's syndrome 2

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Chronic mesenterial obstruction of blood flow resulting from sclerosis of abdominal blood vessels, causing intermittent attacks of pain.

The disease picture was first described by Julius Schnitzler (1865-1939) in Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift, 1901, 51: 505.

Bibliography

  • N. Ortner:
    Zur Klinik der angiosclerotica intestinalis.
    Wiener klinische Wochenschrift, 1902, 15: 1166. Zur Klinik der Angiosklerose der Darmarterien (dyspragia intermittens angioslerotica intestsinalis) nebst einem Beitrage zur Klinik des intermittirenden Hinkens und des Stokes-Adam'schen Symptomenkomplexes.
    (Volkmann's) Sammlung Klinischer Vorträge, Leipzig, 1903, Neue Folge no. 347. Ca 20 pp.

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