Título: Mechanism of edema formation in experimental aminonucleoside nephrosis.
Autores: Huyghues Despointes, René.
Fecha: 1962
Publicador: McGill University - MCGILL
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Tipo: Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Tema: Investigative Medicine.
Descripción: Our present knowledge of body fluid physiology originates with Claude Bernard's concept of a "milieu interieur" of constant composition. (2, 3) This concept, enunciated in 1859, stimulated intensive research, from which several theories have evolved to explain the formation of edema. If today different schools of thought are still opposed with respect to the intrinsic mechanism of edema formation, they at least agree as to its definition. Edema is a condition which is manifested by chronic, progressive accumulation of salt and water in the extra-cellular space, accompanied by an increase of body weight. This definition allows the exclusion of all syndromes in which there is only redistribution of fluid within the body, as in acute pulmonary edema.
Idioma: en