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DYNAMICS OF THE CIRCULATION AND RESULTS OF SURGICAL TREATMENT

HAROLD J. STEWART, M.D.; GEORGE J. HEUER, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1939;63(3):504-530.

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Chronic constrictive pericarditis has received increasing attention in this country in the last ten years. White,¹ in 1935, brought together an excellent historic résumé of Pick's syndrome,² analyzed the clinical manifestations and recorded the experience which he and Churchill had had with surgical treatment—pericardiectomy. This treatment has been pursued most extensively in this country by Churchill and White,³ Beck,⁴ Blalock and Burwell⁵ and us. The syndrome does not appear to be as uncommon as was formerly thought to be the case. The recognition of chronic constrictive pericarditis is important, since it is a cardiac lesion which lends itself to surgical treatment. We have observed 9 patients in the last two and one-half years. Since one group of workers do not have the opportunity to see large numbers of these patients in a short time, we are recording our investigations of the circulation in the presence . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Department of Medicine and the Department of Surgery of the New York Hospital and Cornell University Medical College.

Footnotes
An abstract of these studies was read before the Association of American Physicians, Atlantic City, N. J., May 5, 1937.

Drs. John E. Deitrick, Norman F. Crane, Robert F. Watson and Charles H. Wheeler assisted in the studies of the circulation.

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