ACUTE NON-SPECIFIC MYOCARDITIS
Authors: Samuel Candel, Mark C. Wheelock
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1945)

Article1 September 1945ACUTE NON-SPECIFIC MYOCARDITISSAMUEL CANDEL, Lt. Comdr., (MC) USNR, MARK C. WHEELOCK, Lt. Comdr., (MC)USNRSAMUEL CANDEL, Lt. Comdr., (MC) USNRSearch for more papers by this author, MARK C. WHEELOCK, Lt. Comdr., (MC)USNRSearch for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-23-3-309 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptA peculiarly anomalous situation exists in present day medicine. A mass of evidence has been collected by the pathologist to justify the recognition of an entity characterized by an acute inflammatory process involving the myocardium and most often secondary to some acute infectious disease, apart from the septicemias and the specific myocarditides occurring in such diseases as rheumatic fever, tuberculosis, and rarely syphilis. He has quite correctly labeled the condition as acute myocarditis. 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