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DIAGNOSIS, PROGNOSIS AND TREATMENT

JOSEPH EARLE MOORE; P. F. METILDI, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1933;52(6):978-983.

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The questions of diagnosis and of prognosis of untreated syphilitic aortitis with aneurysm or aortic regurgitation require no elaboration. Two reports from this clinic¹ have shown that by appropriate treatment of these conditions, it is possible materially to prolong life and to alleviate symptoms in a considerable proportion of cases. In these reports and elsewhere, the a priori opinion has been offered that the results of treatment should be even more satisfactory if treatment could be administered while the aortitis was still uncomplicated by valvular incompetency or aneurysmal sacculation. A demonstration of this fact, if true, depends, however, on the accuracy of diagnosis of uncomplicated aortitis.

Although it has been generally agreed that this diagnosis could be made occasionally in a patient with fully developed symptoms and signs, and although some clinicians, as for example Albutt,² have insisted that it might be made with far greater frequency than . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BALTIMORE; ROCHESTER, N. Y.

From the Syphilis Division of the Medical Clinic, the Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Footnotes
Read before the Association of American Physicians, Washington, D. C., May 9, 1933.

This investigation has been supported by a grant from the Milbank Memorial Fund.

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