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ITS OCCURRENCE

FRANK HAWKING, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1934;54(5):799-804.

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In routine autopsies at the Presbyterian Hospital, it has been occasionally observed that a patient dying of a nonrheumatic condition, and often with a history of never having suffered from rheumatic infection, nevertheless showed lesions in the heart indicative of this disease. A search through the literature failed to disclose any description of a series of such cases, although there were a few scattered references to this coincidence. Geipel¹ recorded a case of contracted kidneys showing Aschoff bodies in the myocardium and an adherent pericardium. He also stated that Aschoff mentioned a case of Askanazy's in which scanty Aschoff bodies occurred although other signs of rheumatic infection were absent. Fraenkel² described three cases of verrucous endocarditis (in one of which the myocardium contained numerous Aschoff bodies) in which there was no history of rheumatic infection. Pappenheimer and Von Glahn³ recorded two cases that had no history of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
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From the Department of Pathology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University.

Footnotes
Radcliffe Traveling Fellow, University College, Oxford.

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