PULSELESS DISEASE A REPORT ON FIVE CASES

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Abstract
Pulseless disease is due to an obliterative process in the great branches of the aortic arch and five cases of this rare disease are described. Two of these proved fatal and the necropsy and histological findings are given. In one of them, the cause was considered to be non-specific arteritis; in the other atheroma. The etiology of pulseless disease may be syphilitic arteritis, non-specific arteritis, or atheroma. Non-specific arteritis is the usual cause in young women. The possibility that congenital anomalies of the origins of the aortic arch branches may play a part is also discussed.