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Electrocardiographic and Pathologic Observations

STANFORD WESSLER, M.D.; A. STONE FREEDBERG, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1948;82(1):63-74.

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CARDIAC amyloidosis is a distinct although rare type of organic heart disease in which the clinical findings are believed to be related to the variable deposition of amyloid in the pericardium, valves, myocardium and smaller blood vessels.¹ The purposes of this report are (1) to present 2 cases of cardiac amyloidosis in which electrocardiograms suggested the diagnosis of myocardial infarction, (2) to review the available electrocardiographic data on cardiac amyloidosis and (3) to comment on the relationship of the electrocardiographic findings to the pathologic changes in the myocardium.

REPORT OF CASES

CASE 1.

—A. B., a 67 year old widow, was admitted to the Beth Israel hospital on Aug. 30, 1946, because of the swelling of the abdomen of two weeks' duration.

Sixteen months before her entry she was seen in the outpatient department because of headache. Physical examination at that time revealed a blood pressure of 210 systolic . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BOSTON

From the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and the Medical Research Laboratory, Beth Israel Hospital.

Footnotes
This study was aided by a grant from the Life Insurance Medical Research Fund.

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