BRUCELLOSIS AND HEART DISEASE. III. CHRONIC VALVULAR HEART DISEASE FOLLOWING NONFATAL BRUCELLOSIS
Authors: T M PEERY, J M EVANS
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1958)

Article1 September 1958BRUCELLOSIS AND HEART DISEASE. III. CHRONIC VALVULAR HEART DISEASE FOLLOWING NONFATAL BRUCELLOSISTHOMAS M. PEERY, M.D., JOHN M. EVANS, M.D.THOMAS M. PEERY, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, JOHN M. EVANS, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-49-3-568 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIn an earlier study1 in this series it was noted that endocarditis is the most frequent cause of death in fatal brucellosis. Do valvular lesions also occur in nonfatal brucellosis? We have sought an answer to this question by reviewing the literature on nonfatal brucellosis, and by studying patients in whom heart disease and brucellosis have been associated.HISTORICAL EVIDENCE OF CARDIAC INVOLVEMENT IN NONFATAL BRUCELLOSISEarly writers had much to say about involvement of the cardiovascular system in brucellosis. Veale,2one of the first to write on what was almost certainly brucellosis, described the case of a 24 year...Bibliography1. PeeryBelter TMLF: Brucellosis and heart disease. II. Fatal brucellosis—a review of the literature and report on new cases, to be published. Google Scholar2. Veale H: Report on the cases of fever from Cyprus, Malta, and Gibraltar, that were treated in the Medical Division of the Royal Victoria Hospital Netley, during the year 1879, Army Medical Department Report for 1879, London 21: 260-276, 1881, 11 Ch. Google Scholar3. Hughes M: Mediterranean, Malta, or undulant fever, 1897, Macmillan & Co., London and New York. Google Scholar4. 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Jones criteria (modified) for guidance in the diagnosis of rheumatic fever, Mod. Concepts Cardiovas. Dis. 24: 291 (Sept.) 1955. MedlineGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Washington, D. C.*Presented at the Thirty-ninth Annual Session of The American College of Physicians, Atlantic City, New Jersey, April 30, 1958.From the Departments of Pathology and Medicine, The George Washington University School of Medicine.†This study was supported in part by a grant from the U. S. Public Health Service.Requests for reprints should be addressed to Thomas M. Peery, M.D., Professor of Pathology, George Washington University Hospital, 901 Twenty-third Street, Northwest. Washington 7, D. C. 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