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I. UNCOMPLICATED SYPHILITIC AORTITIS: ITS SYMPTOMATOLOGY, DIAGNOSIS, PROGRESSION AND TREATMENT

HAROLD N. COLE, M.D.; LIDA J. USILTON, M.A.

Arch Intern Med. 1936;57(5):893-909.

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Probably no syphilitic involvement of the human body is more frequently overlooked than that of the cardiovascular system. Of all types, uncomplicated syphilitic aortitis undoubtedly is the most frequently ignored. This is due, to some extent, to a longer or shorter silent period of the disease and also to insufficient attention on the part of the physician to premonitory signs and symptoms. As one of us¹ recently said: "The medical students crowd about the cor bovinum and the hat-box aneurysm; they observe with enthusiasm the thrill, the buzzing and whirring, the heave, the sound of the pistol shot. Seldom indeed does one find an equal degree of absorption or an equal frequency of demonstration of the still, small signs and symptoms of the preventable onset of syphilitic cardiovascular disease." Many pathologists, among them Langer,² Guldberg³ and Warthin,⁴ have emphasized the high percentage of syphilitic involvement of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CLEVELAND; WASHINGTON, D. C.; With the Cooperation of Joseph Earle Moore, M.D., Baltimore; Paul A. O'Leary, M.D., Rochester, Minn.; John H. Stokes, M. D., Philadelphia; Udo J. Wile, M.D., Ann Arbor, Mich.; Thomas Parran Jr., M. D. and R. A. Vonderlehr, M.D., Washington, D. C.

From the syphilis clinics of the Western Reserve University, the Johns Hopkins University, the Mayo Clinic, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan, assisted by the United States Public Health Service, with the financial support of an anonymous donor.

Footnotes
The names with an asterisk represent members of the United States Public Health Service; the names without an asterisk represent members of the Cooperative Clinical Group.

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