AN ARTICLE CONTRIBUTED TO AN ANNIVERSARY VOLUME IN HONOR OF DOCTOR JOSEPH HERSEY PRATT
Authors: LOUIS HAMMAN
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1937)

Articles Contributed in Honor of Dr. Joseph H. Pratt1 July 1937AN ARTICLE CONTRIBUTED TO AN ANNIVERSARY VOLUME IN HONOR OF DOCTOR JOSEPH HERSEY PRATTHEALED BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS*LOUIS HAMMAN, F.A.C.P.LOUIS HAMMAN, F.A.C.P.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-11-1-175 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptIf we base our views about the course of subacute bacterial endocarditis solely upon routine observations made in the clinic, we must conclude that it is an exceptionally malignant disease, for almost invariably it ends in death. Reckoned from the time symptoms first appear the average duration of the illness is about six months and only seldom does the affected patient live longer than a year. In 1924 Thayer reported that of 206 cases, collected from the records of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, none had recovered. As far as I know the uniform mortality of the disease at that hospital...References BIGGS AD: Prognosis of chronic infectious endocarditis, Arch. Int. Med., 1925, xxxv, 402. CrossrefGoogle Scholar BOGENDÖRFER L: Zur Prognose der Endocarditis lenta, Deutsch. Arch. f. klin. Med., 1927, cliv, 60. Google Scholar CAPPS JA: The arsenical treatment of chronic infectious endocarditis, Am. Jr. Med. Sci., 1923, clxv, 40. Google Scholar HEMSTED H: A recovery from infective endocarditis (streptococcal) with comments by A. J. Horder, Lancet, 1913, i, 10. CrossrefGoogle Scholar KISSLING K: Eine anscheinend geheilte Endocarditis lenta (Streptococcus viridans), Med. Klin., 1935, xxxi, 1427. Google Scholar KRAISS H: Zur Frage der Ausheilung der Endocarditis lenta, Med. Klin., 1936, xxxii, 566. Google Scholar LIBMAN E: A consideration of the prognosis in subacute bacterial endocarditis, Am. Heart Jr., 1922, i, 25. Ibid: A further report on recovery and recurrence in subacute bacterial endocarditis, Trans. Assoc. Am. Physicians, 1933, xlviii, 44. Google Scholar MURRAY LM: Subacute bacterial endocarditis, Ann. Clin. Med., 1922, i, 18. Google Scholar OILLEGRAHAMDETWEILER JADHK: A further report on a series of recovered cases of subacute bacterial endocarditis, Trans. Assoc. Am. Physicians, 1924, xxxix, 227. Google Scholar PERRY MW: Gonorrheal endocarditis with recovery, Am. Jr. Med. Sci., 1930, clxxix, 599. Ibid: Further note on a case of gonorrheal endocarditis with recovery, Am. Jr. Med. Sci., 1933, clxxxv, 394. CrossrefGoogle Scholar SCHOTTMÜLLER H: Endocarditis Rheumatica, Endocarditis lenta und ihre Prognose, Libman's Anniversary Volume 3, The International Press, New York, 1932, p. 1057. Google Scholar SMITH FJ: The prognosis in Streptococcus viridans bacteraemia, Jr. Michigan Med. Soc., 1924, xxiii, 41. Google Scholar THAYER WS: Symposium on Endocarditis, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1924, lxxxii, 1721. Google Scholar WARRENHERRICK MWW: Analysis of 134 cases of bacteremia, Am. Jr. Med. Sci., 1916, cli, 556. CrossrefGoogle Scholar WEISSRHOADS SCP: Healing and healed vegetative (subacute bacterial) endocarditis, New England Jr. Med., 1928, cxcix, 70. CrossrefGoogle Scholar WEST GL: Sudden death in a case of asymptomatic subacute bacterial endocarditis, New England Jr. Med., 1931, ccv, 675. CrossrefGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAuthors: LOUIS HAMMAN, F.A.C.P.Affiliations: Baltimore, Maryland*Presented at the St. Louis meeting of the American College of Physicians, April 20, 1937. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byDie Herz- und GefäßkrankheitenNichtrheumatische EndokarditisNichtrheumatische EndokarditisThe Lewis A. Conner Lecture of the American Heart AssociationSubacute bacterial endocarditis of nonstreptococcic etiologyHEALED SUBACUTE BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS: REPORT OF TWO CASES WITH DEATH DUE TO CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE*ALVIN H. HONIGMAN, M.D., JAMES R. KARNS, M.D.TREATMENT OF SUBACUTE INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS WITH HEPARIN AND CHEMOTHERAPYStaphylococcus aureus subacute bacterial endocarditis superimposed on a congenital heart lesion with recoveryThe pathogenesis of bacterial endocarditisSUBACUTE BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS DUE TO STREPTOCOCCUS VIRIDANS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO PROGNOSIS*JOSEPH A. CAPPS, M.D., F.A.C.P. 1 July 1937Volume 11, Issue 1Page: 175-194KeywordsBacterial diseasesEndocarditisMortality ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 July 1937 PDF downloadLoading ...