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MONONEURITIS MULTIPLEX COMPLICATING THE POST‐PERFUSION SYNDROME
Author(s) -
WALSH J. C.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
australasian annals of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0571-9283
DOI - 10.1111/imj.1968.17.4.327
Subject(s) - mononeuritis multiplex , medicine , wallerian degeneration , perfusion , complication , pathological , pathology , surgery , vasculitis , radiology , disease
SUMMARY The post‐perfusion syndrome is a well recognized complication of open heart surgery which resolves without sequelae. A case of the post‐perfusion syndrome complicated by the development of mononeuritis multiplex is reported. The pathological lesion was shown to be Wallerian degeneration.