SUBACUTE BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; AN ANALYSIS OF FIFTY CASES WITH AUTOPSY FINDINGS
Authors: Harold Comonfort Denman
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1942)

Article1 May 1942SUBACUTE BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; AN ANALYSIS OF FIFTY CASES WITH AUTOPSY FINDINGSHAROLD COMONFORT DENMAN, M.D., F.A.C.P.HAROLD COMONFORT DENMAN, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-16-5-904 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptCoburn,1in his study of rheumatic disease, observed that although this disease is found with great frequency among children and in young adolescents on the medical wards, non-hemolytic streptococcus endocarditis has been infrequent in this age group at the Presbyterian Hospital and has been observed only once on these wards in a patient under 10 years old. This is in agreement with the findings of others. Blumer,2in studying 317 cases of subacute bacterial endocarditis, found only one under the age of 10 years. 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Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Brooklyn, New York*Received for publication September 24, 1940.From the Medical services of St. Peter's and Kings County Hospitals, Brooklyn, New York. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byBACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS IN THE AGED*JACQUES B. WALLACH, M.D., MACELLIS GLASS, B.A., LESLIE LUKASH, M.D., ALFRED A. ANGRIST, M.D.Subacute bacterial endocarditis of nonstreptococcic etiologyBacterial Endocarditis in the ElderlySubacute bacterial endocarditis in the aged 1 May 1942Volume 16, Issue 5Page: 904-919KeywordsAdolescentsAge groupsAutopsyChildrenEndocarditisMedical servicesStreptococcus ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 May 1942 PDF downloadLoading ...