The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 40, 289-291,
Copyright, 1924, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York
PARTIAL OCCLUSION OF THE PULMONARY AORTA AND INFERIOR VENA CAVA WITH THE METALLIC BAND. OBSERVATIONS ON CHANGES IN THE VESSEL WALL AND IN THE HEART
Mont R. Reid M.D.1
1 From the Hunterian Laboratory for Experimental Surgery of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore.
In dogs a constricting metallic band does not affect the integrity of the wall of the vena cava, whereas it leads to a rapid death of the wall of the aorta, and, as evidenced by a single instance studied, to a much slower death of the pulmonary artery. In the instance, just mentioned, constriction of the common pulmonary artery by an aluminum band for a period of 2
years led to a right ventricular hypertrophy.
Submitted on April 22, 1924