Epinephrine-Mecholyl Test (Funkenstein Test)

1 May 1955

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Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in A.M.A. Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry

Vol. 73 (5) , 496-514
https://doi.org/10.1001/archneurpsyc.1955.02330110012002

Abstract

This paper is based on a study of 201 consecutive patients seen in private practice during the past six years to whom Funkenstein's prognostic test¹was administered prior to treatment. In a number of these patients the test was repeated at intervals during the course of, and after completion of, treatment. The subject of the present paper is the correlation of the pretreatment test results in these 201 cases with the outcome of the therapy chosen. The predictive value of the test was then subjected to statistical analysis. This material is suited to test and validate the concepts developed by Funkenstein and associates¹and amplified by Gellhorn²on a new sample. The Funkenstein test consists in measuring the blood pressure changes and observing the immediate clinical and psychological response of the patient, first to an intravenous injection of 0.025 mg. of epinephrine, then to an intramuscular injection

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