A STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF TYPE A (ASIAN STRAIN) INFLUENZA ON THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM OF MAN
Authors: JOHN WALSH
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1958)

Article1 September 1958A STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF TYPE A (ASIAN STRAIN) INFLUENZA ON THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM OF MANJOHN WALSH, M.D., G. E. BURCH, M.D., F.A.C.P., AUBREY WHITE, M.D., WILLIAM MOGABGAB, M.D., F.A.C.P., LAWRENCE DIETLEIN, M.D.JOHN WALSH, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, G. E. BURCH, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this author, AUBREY WHITE, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, WILLIAM MOGABGAB, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this author, LAWRENCE DIETLEIN, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-49-3-502 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe foreknowledge of the approaching pandemic of Asian influenza permitted for the first time the planning of programs for the study of many aspects of the disease in different areas of the country. The present report concerns observations on the influence of Asian influenza on the cardiovascular system of man.Initially it was planned to study fairly intensively patients with acute uncomplicated influenza. Unfortunately, however, the disease reached the New Orleans area in epidemic proportions in July and August, 1957, even before it involved other sections of the country, except for occasional small outbreaks among soldiers, sailors and travelers returning...Bibliography1. Lyon DM: The relation of pulse-rate to temperature in febrile conditions, Quart. J. Med. 20: 205, 1927. CrossrefGoogle Scholar2. AltschuleFreedbergMcManus MDASMJ: Circulation and respiration during an episode of chill and fever in man, J. Clin. Investigation 24: 878, 1945. CrossrefGoogle Scholar3. Burch GE: Digital plethysmography, 1954, Grune and Stratton, New York. Google Scholar4. Hamburger WW: The heart in influenza, M. Clin. North America 22: 111, 1938. CrossrefGoogle Scholar5. 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Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: New Orleans, Louisiana*From the Symposium on Influenza, presented at the Thirty-ninth Annual Session of The American College of Physicians, Atlantic City, New Jersey, April 28, 1958.From the Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, and Charity Hospital of Louisiana at New Orleans.†Aided by grants from the Public Health Service (H3615 and H143) and the Upjohn Co., Kalamazoo, Michigan.Requests for reprints should be addressed to G. E. Burch, M.D., Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, 1430 Tulane Avenue, New Orleans 12, La. 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