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ABNORMALITIES IN THE ELECTROCARDIOGRAM FOLLOWING HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS SORE THROAT
LOWELL A. RANTZ, M.D.;
WESLEY W. SPINK, M.D.;
PAUL J. BOISVERT, M.D.
Arch Intern Med. 1946;77(1):66-79.
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AN extensive study has been made recently of acute hemolytic streptococcic disease of the respiratory tract among military personnel. A summary of the clinical and bacteriologic observations, so far as they contribute to the understanding of the etiology and pathogenesis of rheumatic fever, has been published.1 The data indicated (1) that rheumatic fever was invariably preceded by infection by group A hemolytic streptococci; (2) that a nonarthritic nonsuppurative continuing disease also frequently followed infection by these organisms, and (3) that electrocardiographic abnormalities, indicating the presence of carditis, were often present during the course of arthritic and nonarthritic illness.
It is the purpose of this paper to illustrate and describe the electrocardiographic abnormalities that were discovered and to compare them with those previously observed during the course of streptococcic and other types of infectious disease.
MATERIAL AND METHODS
All patients suffering from disease of the respiratory tract were
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Author Affiliations
SAN FRANCISCO; MINNEAPOLIS; NEW HAVEN, CONN.
Footnotes
The facilities of the Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, San Francisco, were made available to the commission for certain purposes.
These studies were made during a field study by the Commission on Hemolytic Streptococcal Infections, Board for the Investigation and Control of Influenza and Other Epidemic Diseases in the Army, Preventive Medicine Service, Office of the Surgeon General, United States Army.
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