The external autopsy examination revealed anasarca with ascites, jaundice, diffuse petechiae and purpura, and a presacral decubitus ulcer. |
A 51 year-old man with a history of presumed alcoholic cirrhosis presented to the emergency department with anasarca. |
Did he have diabetes, ascites, uraemia, anasarca, or heart failure? |
If so, why shall we regard anasarca, ending in ascites, as a general disease? |
In anasarca the swelling is nonsensitive, while sensitive in the acute swelling of farcy. |
Animal bocaviruses have been shown to cause intrauterine infection, fetal anasarca and abortion in late gestation. |