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Postpartal Heart Disease

Archives of Internal Medicine, 1961
To the practicing physician and to the research investigator alike, the dilated heart has long occupied an enigmatic but challenging role. Transcending etiological diagnosis, ubiquitous to the extent of being commonplace to the pathologist, cardiac dilation, nevertheless, is a major determinant of all functional and therapeutic classification. Even the
J J, WALSH, G E, BURCH
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Congenital heart disease

Medicine, 2002
Abstract Congenital heart disease occurs in approximately 8/1000 live births. The most common lesion is a ventricular septal defect. Many are small and do not need surgery. Interventional catheterization has advanced considerably in the last two decades.
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Postpartum heart disease

The American Journal of Cardiology, 1960
Abstract A search of the literature reveals that instances of obscure congestive failure following pregnancy were reported as long ago as 1849. There are indications that Barker had some notion of the existence of such a syndrome, and a case occurring on the service of Goodhart at Guy's Hospital is noted in the Transactions of the Pathological ...
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Carcinoid heart disease

International Journal of Cardiology, 2008
The carcinoid syndrome is usually evident when enterochromaffin (EC) cell-derived neuroendocrine tumors (carcinoids) metastasize to the liver. In addition to carcinoid symptomatology, about 40% of patients exhibit carcinoid heart disease (CHD) with fibrotic endocardial plaques and associated heart valve dysfunction. The mechanism behind CHD development
B I, Gustafsson   +4 more
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Chagas Heart Disease

2003
American trypanosomiasis and its etiologic agent Trypanosoma cruzi were first described by Carlos Chagas in 1909.12 Chagas single-handedly characterized this new disease in all of its aspects by first discovering the causative agent and its vector and then seeking out and describing human cases of infection ...
J M, Hagar, S H, Rahimtoola
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Congenital heart disease

Coronary Artery Disease, 1993
The vast majority of animals with congenital heart disease present with an audible murmur; thus, auscultation is the initial key diagnostic test. Nearly all congenital defects have a systolic murmur - except most notably a patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), which has a characteristic continuous murmur.
K M, Link   +3 more
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Familial Heart Disease

Diseases of the Chest, 1967
A kindred with a high incidence of cardiac disease has been described. The mode of transmission is probably on the basis of a sex limited autosomal dominant gene. Postmortem examination in Case 1 showed coronary atherosclerosis with occlusion of the anterior descending branch of the left coronary artery.
T J, Tsagaris   +2 more
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VALVULAR HEART DISEASE

Radiologic Clinics of North America, 1999
Congenital and acquired valvular disease remains a frequent cause of morbidity and mortality. It presents a diagnostic challenge in all age groups, and often occurs in conjunction with other types of heart disease. Traditional chest radiography provides the earliest opportunity for radiologic diagnosis, hence the need for skill and knowledge in ...
M J, Lipton, R, Coulden
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IATROGENIC HEART DISEASE

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1953
Excerpt INTRODUCTION Iatrogenic means "caused by a physician." Iatrogenic heart disease is an illness in which symptoms referable to the heart, or symptoms interpreted by the patient as such, are p...
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Valvular heart disease

Current Opinion in Cardiology, 1989
Abstract Rheumatic valve disease remains prevalent in developing countries, but over the last 50 years there has been a decline in the incidence of rheumatic valve disease and an increase in the prevalence of degenerative valve pathology in northern Europe and North America.
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