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Report of a Fatal Case

VERA B. DOLGOPOL, M.D.; GEORGE S. HUSSON, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1949;83(2):179-196.

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INFECTIOUS mononucleosis, until recently, has been regarded as a mild disease with few complications and with a uniformly favorable outcome. Glanzmann,¹ in 1930, stated in his monograph that the prognosis in infectious mononucleosis, as in German measles, is absolutely favorable. In the opinion of Contratto² (1944) infectious mononucleosis is attended with no more complications than an ordinary infection of the respiratory tract. However, there are several forms of serious complications in this disease (hepatitis, thrombocytopenia, myocarditis, spontaneous rupture of the spleen and involvement of the central and peripheral nervous system), with instances of fatal outcome from the latter three. Multiple serious complications may occur in the same patient.

Electrocardiographic changes have been reported by several authors,³ with death in Jersild's^3a case, Microscopic evidence of focal myocarditis and of involvement of the central nervous system was found in a recently discharged convalescent patient who had died in an airplane crash on . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Pathologic Laboratories and from the Communicable Disease Service of the Willard Parker Hospital.

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