On the pathogenesis of pulmonary gangrene

Abstract

Interested in pulmonary gangrene, we examined autopsy reports from 1928-30 of 50 cases with an anatomical diagnosis of pulmonary gangrene. These were mostly individuals under the age of 50 (34 of 50) who were actively working. We did not find in this material confirmation of the view about predominant pulmonary gangrene of old, starving, with swallowing paralysis or brain diseases; in none of the cases was found any foreign body or food particles in the airways - complete contradiction to the authors' views on aspiration as the main pathogenetic factor.

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