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PHILIP ROSENBLATT, M.D.; LEO LOEWE, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1945;76(1):1-10.

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Evidence for the statement that patients with subacute bacterial endocarditis may recover has hitherto been the fact that those with a typical clinical picture and from whose blood organisms are grown on cultures do survive and become free from symptoms and bacteria.¹ Libman² reported at least 3 per cent of recoveries in the usual type of the disease. He was also convinced that many more recoveries occur in persons with a mild form of the disease which is often overlooked.

Pathologic confirmation of healed subacute bacterial endocarditis is, however, largely indirect and inferential in nature. For example, Weiss and Rhodes¹ examined a group of hearts obtained at autopsy and selected 3 as being examples of completely healed subacute bacterial endocarditis. Others are described as suggesting a "healing" endocarditis. Hamman³ similarly described 4 cases, 2 of which showed evidence of "almost complete healing of vegetations," while in . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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From the Department of Laboratories and the Department of Medicine, Jewish Hospital. Aided by grants from Friends of the Hospital and from the Dazian Foundation for Medical Research.

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