This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on Web of Science (9)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

A Critique

HAROLD LAUFMAN, M.D., Ph.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1951;62(4):486-492.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

IT IS NOW eight years since Knisely and his associates first reported their observations on the curious phenomenon of red cell agglutination within vascular walls. To this phenomenon they applied the term "sludge." A great deal of earnest and interested work has been done, and many articles on the subject have been published showing the presence of sludged blood in conjunction with nearly all pathologic conditions of the body. It has been found coincident with disease. shock and trauma of all sorts: its ubiquity challenged investigators to perform the difficult tasks of accounting for its presence and determining its significance. By 1947 the concept of sludge, by virtue of the widest implications given it. had become the nexus of a whole system of thinking about disease. It had become somehow identified as the cause of specific pathologic findings or of complications in conditions which it accompanied.

Sludge, for example, is . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHICAGO

From the Department of Surgery, Northwestern University Medical School.

Footnotes
Read before the Chicago Surgical Society. Nov. 3. 1950.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?