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HERMAN L. MASLOW, M.D.; MAX LEDERER, M.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1933;45(4):807-814.

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Fiedler,¹ in 1889, described several cases of acute interstitial myocarditis. If one includes the cases described by Steffen² in 1888, thirty-seven cases with postmortem observations of this pathologic entity have been reported to date in the continental literature. In this country, Scott and Saphir³ were the first to call attention to this disease. They reviewed thirty-six cases previously reported and added two cases of their own. Subsequently, Bailey and Andersen⁴ reported two more cases, and recently de La Chapelle and Graef⁵ added another case.

Sellentin⁶ named the disease acute isolated myocarditis, because as a rule changes are not found in other parts of the heart or in other organs. However, "interstitial," "circumscribed," "diffuse." "isolated" idiopathic and primary myocarditis are terms that have been applied by various authors to this condition.

Schmorl,⁷ who examined Fiedler's cases, described the histologic picture of this disease in . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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From the Departments of Pediatrics and Pathology of the Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn.

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