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CATHERINE E. DRAWE, M.S.; ELEANOR M. HAFKESBRING, M.S.; RICHARD ASHMAN, PH.D.

Am J Dis Child. 1937;53(6):1470-1484.

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RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE

Many of the first electrocardiographic studies that were carried out (Butterfield,¹ White² and Emanuel³) emphasized the disturbance in conduction which appeared during the course of rheumatic fever. In addition to defects in conduction, Cohn and Swift⁴ pointed out the changes in the ventricular complex produced by rheumatic fever. They followed the course of the disease closely, taking 2,591 electrocardiograms in 37 cases. Shortly afterwards White and Burwell⁵ pointed out the incidence of predominance of the right ventricle and prominent P waves with rheumatic mitral stenosis. In 1926 Bain and Hamilton⁶ studied 50 children, aged from 4 to 14, some of whom showed only rheumatic carditis and others valvular lesions in addition. Their paper does not give a true idea of either the frequency or the extent of defects in conduction with these conditions in children because they neglected to give the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW ORLEANS

From the Heart Station of the Charity Hospital and the Department of Physiology, Louisiana State University Medical Center.

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