This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

ALFRED D. BIGGS, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1925;35(3):402-404.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

According to reports in the literature, chronic infectious endocarditis is usually fatal. Billings,¹ observed only one recovery in fourteen patients, and all of the ten reported by Osler² died. Of the 150 patients with subacute bacterial endocarditis reported by Libman,³ 146 died, and recently Thayer⁴ reported 206 cases terminating fatally. Contrasted with these are other statistics mentioning a lower death rate. Four patients treated with sodium cacodylate by Capps⁵ are reported well after three years. Graham, Ollie and Detweiler⁶ have observed twenty-three patients for a period of nine years, and of these at least twenty are living. The presence of bacteria in blood cultures of patients with endocarditis is generally regarded as indicating a grave prognosis. This idea is not altogether in harmony with results obtained at St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago. Of fifty-seven patients with bacterial endocarditis twenty-four are living and many of them seem to have recovered from the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
The John Jay Borland Fellow in Medicine, 1923-1924 CHICAGO

From the Medical Service and Pathological Laboratory of St. Luke's Hospital, Chicago.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?