Geriatrics : the diseases of old age and their treatment, including physiological old age, home and institutional care, and medico-legal relations . attack passes away in a few minutes if the cause is removed. Passive hyperemia is a chronic condition due to venousstasis. It may occur as a temporary condition if the cause is of atemporary nature, as the pressure of a tight collar, stooping,coughing, etc. In the permanent condition there is either avalvular disease which interferes with the return circulation, orelse some local interference, such as a growth pressing upon thejugular. The symptom
Geriatrics : the diseases of old age and their treatment, including physiological old age, home and institutional care, and medico-legal relations . attack passes away in a few minutes if the cause is removed. Passive hyperemia is a chronic condition due to venousstasis. It may occur as a temporary condition if the cause is of atemporary nature, as the pressure of a tight collar, stooping,coughing, etc. In the permanent condition there is either avalvular disease which interferes with the return circulation, orelse some local interference, such as a growth pressing upon thejugular. The symptoms are persistent headache, drowsinesswith inability to sleep when lying down, vertigo, flushed faceand marked prominence of the jugulars. The arteries, however,are not prominent. Treatment of cerebral hyperemia depends upon the form andthe cause, which must be removed whenever possible. Thiscan generally be done in active hyperemia and in those cases ofpassive hyperemia or venous stasis, the causes of which are tem-porary, as external pressure. In cases due to interference withthe venous circulation, following cardiac disease, or the pressure. Tremorgraph—Paralysis agitans, left hand. (Neustaedter, Med. Record, July 17, 1909.)
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