Word: edema
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Died. Robert Alexander ("Steve") Cochran, 48, Hollywood heavy (The Big Operator, The Deadly Companions), a brawny onetime shipyard worker who played movieland mobsters and occasional heroes, except for a surprising leap into Italian avant-garde as the lovesick mechanic in Antonioni's IlGrido; of pulmonary edema, aboard his 33-ft. ketch Rogue, while sailing the Pacific from Acapulco to Costa Rica with a crew of three Mexican women, who drifted helplessly for ten days after his death until they were rescued by a U.S. fishing boat off the coast of Guatemala...
...many disorders of the heart, lungs, liver and kidneys, one of the most troublesome symptoms is the ancient complaint "the dropsy"?retention of salt and water so that the patient becomes bloated with brine. If the victim already has heart trouble, the edema will make it worse. In the mildest cases, cutting out salt may be adequate treatment. For more severe cases, a variety of chemicals is available. But some patients become resistant to any one medicine, so they have to switch prescriptions, and doctors eventually run out of alternatives...
...checking the return flow of blood and lymph from the feet and legs to the trunk. An all-around girdle is not so likely to have this effect, even if tight, because blood and lymph find alternate return channels on the inner side of the thighs. Once the "dependent edema" caused by tight panty girdles has been diagnosed, the prescription for cure is simple and straightforward: throw away the girdle...
...hormone studies: "We know that a lot of angiotensin raises the blood pressure and causes salt retention. What we need to know is whether an increase so small that it does not raise the blood pressure will nonetheless cause salt retention, and therefore help to account for edema-'dropsy.' It looks that way, from our work with volunteers like Schmidt and Baldwin. This may be important in treating patients with heart failure...
Artist Annigoni painted Mr. Kennedy with a cauliflower left ear, asymmetric pupils, ptosis of the right upper eyelid, an eversion of the left lower eyelid, a hint of edema in his left cheek. The President displayed none of these findings when I had the honor of meeting him recently...