Hemiedema in Cases of Hemiplegia

Nature of Oedema in Paralysed Limbs of Hemiplegic Patients

“…Parhon and Goldstein (1899) concluded that the vasomotor centres are contained in the corpus striatum, especially the head of the caudate nucleus. Luhan (1936), however, states that thus far results of clinical studies which have been checked with post-mortem observations have not furnished any critical evidence for localizing a cerebral vasomotor centre. In our series necropsy was performed on seven of the eight patients who died.…”

“…Congestive Cardiac Failure.-Several authors have noted that hemiplegic oedema is more common in those patients who have previously experienced episodes of congestive cardiac failure (Weiss and Ellis, 1931;Luhan, 1936;Bucy, 1949). In the present series two cardiac patients (well controlled by digitalis and mercurials) developed hemiplegia and became oedematous on the paralysed side.…”