LONGEVITY IN EXTENSIVE ORGANIC HEART LESIONS: A CASE OF LUTEMBACHER'S SYNDROME IN A MAN AGED 72
Authors: J M ASKEY, J E KAHLER
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1950)

Case Reports1 October 1950LONGEVITY IN EXTENSIVE ORGANIC HEART LESIONS: A CASE OF LUTEMBACHER'S SYNDROME IN A MAN AGED 72JOHN MARTIN ASKEY, M.D., F.A.C.P., JAMES E. KAHLER, M.D.JOHN MARTIN ASKEY, M.D., F.A.C.P., JAMES E. KAHLER, M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-33-4-1031 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptAn astounding feature of Lutembacher's syndrome is the ability of many patients to endure the marked lesion for many decades. One woman lived to the age of 741 and passed successfully through 11 pregnancies and three abortions. In Bonnabel's report,2 two patients lived to be over 70. It is difficult to document precisely the instances of Lutembacher's syndrome3 in the literature. Many are included in reports upon interatrial septal defect without definite designation of the mitral lesion. An approximate enumeration would be as follows:McGinn and White4reported 24; Roesler5mentioned 6 more; Tinney6in 1940 found 11 instances reported...Bibliography1. Firket C: Examen anatomique d'un cas de persistance du trou ovale de Botal, avec lesions valvulaires considerables du coeur gauche, chez une femme de 74 ans, Ann. Soc. med. chir. de Liége 19: 188-197, 1880. Google Scholar2. Bonnabel J: Contribution à l'étude de quelques affections congenitales du coeur, compatibles avec l'existence et de leur pronostic, 1906, Paris. Google Scholar3. Lutembacher R: De la stenose mitrale avec communication interauriculaire, Arch. d. mal. du coeur 9: 237-260, 1916. Google Scholar4. McGinnWhite SP: Interauricular septal defect with mitral stenosis, Am. Heart J. 9: 1-13, 1933. CrossrefGoogle Scholar5. Roesler H: Interauricular septal defect, Arch. Int. Med. 54: 339-380, 1934. CrossrefGoogle Scholar6. Tinney WS: Interauricular septal defect, Arch. Int. Med. 66: 807-815, 1940. CrossrefGoogle Scholar7. Jerofejeff P: Offenes Foramen ovale bei Mitralstenose, Frankf. Ztschr. f. Path. 46: 92-96, 1933-34. Google Scholar8. KirshbaumPerlman JDL: Interauricular septal defect (primitive ostium primum) associated with mitral stenosis (Lutembacher's syndrome) and syphilitic aortitis, Illinois M. J. 76: 380-383, 1939. Google Scholar9. Uhley MH: Lutembacher's syndrome and a new concept of the dynamics of interatrial septal defect, Am. Heart J. 24: 315-328, 1942. CrossrefGoogle Scholar10. TinneyBarnes WSAR: Interauricular septal defect, Minnesota Med. 25: 637-643, 1942. Google Scholar11. Baylin GJ: Patent interauricular septum associated with mitral stenosis: Lutembacher's syndrome, Radiology 38: 1-6, 1942. CrossrefGoogle Scholar12. Lutembacher R: Les formes rigides de la stenose mitrale, Presse méd. 50: 715-716, 1942. Google Scholar13. PecoPastorinoGaribotto GJCRC: Enfermedad de Lutembacher, An. Inst. modelo de clín. méd. 24: 140-154, 1943. Google Scholar14. de Freitas A: Um caso de doenca de Lutembacher (communicacao interauricular e aperto mitral), Amatus 2: 149-156, 1943. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: *Received for publication January 6, 1948.From the University of Southern California School of Medicine, and St. Vincent's Hospital, Los Angeles, California. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byAtrial septal defect: Simple and complexInteratrial shunt devices for the treatment of heart failureLeft atrial decompression devicesCardiovascular Research in Pathology: Where Are We Now?Atrial Septal DefectAngeborene Herz- und GefäßfehlerCongenital Heart Disease in the AdultCongenital heart disease in the adultAtrial Septal Defect in the AgedThe anatomical types of atrial septal defectPathologische Anatomie der angeborenen HerzfehlerRheumatic heart disease associated with atrial septal defect: Clinical and pathologic study of 12 cases of Lutembacher's syndromePathologic study of persistent common atrioventricular canalOstium primumDie kongenitalen Mißbildungen am venösen Anteil des Herzens 1 October 1950Volume 33, Issue 4Page: 1031-1036KeywordsHeartHospital medicineLesionsPregnancy ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 October 1950 PDF downloadLoading ...