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By G. Renard and A. Pascal Mekdjian. Price, 22 francs. Pp. 146. Paris, Masson & Cie, 1937.

Arnold Knapp, Reviewer

Arch Ophthal. 1938;19(1):159-160.

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After an introduction and description of the clinical symptoms of ophthalmic migraine, the authors, Renard, professor of medicine, and Mekdjian, assistant in ophthalmology, define the problems which are presented by the visual and the sensory expression of migraine and their localization.

In the second part of the book the special field in which these symptoms occur is examined, and their modification with the patient's age and their morbid associations are discussed. The varieties of scotoma are well illustrated. According to the authors, those suffering from migraine show: (1) digestive disturbances; (2) neurovegetative disturbances; (3) humoral disturbances; (4) oscillations of the arterial tension, with a preponderance of hypotension; (5) psychic disturbances, and (6) endocrine disorders.

One may conclude that the migrainous constitution depends on these secondary states of the neurohumoral-endocrine equilibrium, which are generally unstable and may be acquired or be transmitted by heredity.

There are two groups of disorders . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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