BANTI SYNDROME (FIBROCONGESTIVE SPLENOMEGALY)
- 1 October 1940
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 66 (4) , 879-892
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.1940.00190160098008
Abstract
The Banti syndrome is still an unsolved problem. The question of cardinal importance is whether the splenomegaly is primary or secondary to portal or hepatic changes. Banti1stated the belief that the trouble lay primarily in the spleen and that the portal and hepatic changes were dependent on the splenic ones. The idea that the splenomegaly was the consequence of circulatory disturbances was put forward by Dock and Warthin2and further developed with the description of the thrombophlebitic splenomegaly.3This theory occupied a position of definite advantage when it was recognized that the structure of Banti splenomegaly was chiefly congestive4and that the pressure in the splenic vein was highly increased.5But these same signs of portal hypertension were found to be present when an obstructive factor was missing. This fact was responsible for the widest gap in the support of the theory of venous congestion as the causative agentThis publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: