Clinical Differentiation of Pulmonary Infarction: (Correlation of Clinical and Pathologic Findings)

1) Nineteen patients with pathologic evidence of pulmonary infarction were studied in a neuropsychiatric hospital. 2) Clinical and pathologic diagnoses were correlated. 3) The occurrence of pulmonary infarction in psychotic individuals is not uncommon. 4) Certain predisposing factors were elicited. 5) Pulmonary infarction and pneumonia are often confused clinically. 6) Cardiovascular disease, posture, and neoplasms appear to play significant roles in the causation of pulmonary infarction.