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A TELEROENTGENOGRAPHIC STUDY OF TWO HUNDRED CASES

HÉCTOR GOTTA, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1938;61(6):860-874.

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Until recently "thyroid heart" was considered to be a definite entity and was admitted without discussion as a member of the group of organic cardiac diseases. This idea is now losing popularity, and the tendency to consider so-called thyroid heart as a simple functional disorder is becoming more and more prevalent.

The fundamental reasons for this change are based on experimental proof—pathologico-anatomic, electrocardiographic and roentgenographic, though none of these has been capable of showing definitely the existence of a constant specific alteration in the heart in hyperthyroidism. Thus, Takane¹ and Boyksen² have found infiltration or degenerative changes in the hearts of rats intoxicated with thyroid preparations, whereas Goodpasture³ found only slight alterations in rabbits under similar conditions, but he admitted that there might exist an increased liability of the myocardium to infection. Rake and McEachern⁴ said they considered that the lesions they observed were of no . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA

From the Department of Surgery, the Rawson Hospital, Prof. E. Finochietto, director.

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