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REPORT OF A CASE, WITH CONSIDERATION OF PSYCHOSOMATIC FACTORS

MEYER FRIEDMAN, M.D.; J. S. KASANIN, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1943;72(6):767-774.

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Because it has been assumed rather generally that the heredity patterns of identical twins are essentially similar, a study of any disease process affecting identical twins is of importance in that it may suggest the presence or absence of heredity factors in the pathogenesis of this particular disease. A study of cardiovascular disease occurring in identical twins may have such pertinence.

Electrocardiographic studies¹ of identical twins have shown that, although the electrocardiograms of identical twins are similar in many instances, they are not always so and may be considerably different.

Rheumatic fever with carditis in each of a pair of identical twins has been reported by Morgan and Webster² and by Perry.³ However, the latter author also reported the occurrence of rheumatic fever in but one of another pair of identical twins and concluded that, while heredity may be of considerable importance in the pathogenesis of rheumatic . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
SAN FRANCISCO

From the Harold Brunn Institute for Cardiovascular Research and the Department of Psychiatry, Mount Zion Hospital.

Footnotes
Presented at a meeting of the California Heart Association, Los Angeles, May 1, 1943.