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REPORT OF SEVEN CASES

BRANCH CRAIGE, Jr., M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1941;67(2):399-410.

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Death rarely comes to patients in status asthmaticus. Thieme and Sheldon,¹ summarizing the literature prior to 1937, counted only 43 cases with autopsy reports in which the patient died in an asthmatic paroxysm. They added 7 such cases and since then additional cases have been reported by Fowler² and by Lamson and Butt.³

Of 56,000 admissions to the medical service of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, 1,378 represented those of 992 patients who had had either a primary or a secondary clinical diagnosis of bronchial asthma; of this number 49 died. Autopsies were performed on 23 of these 49 patients. In 7 of these 23 patients the clinical picture was that of status asthmaticus, the autopsy observations were consistent with bronchial asthma and no extrapulmonary cause of death was present.

The 7 cases are herewith reported.

CLINICAL FINDINGS

The patients were all women between the ages of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW HAVEN, CONN.

From the Department of Pathology, the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston.

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