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

Article1 December 1937AN ARTICLE CONTRIBUTED TO AN ANNIVERSARY VOLUME IN HONOR OF DOCTOR JOSEPH HERSEY PRATTCARDIAC HYPERTROPHY: ITS RELATION TO CORONARY ARTERIOSCLEROSIS AND CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE*DAVID DAVIS, M.D., HERRMAN L. BLUMGART, M.D.DAVID DAVIS, M.D., HERRMAN L. BLUMGART, M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-11-6-1024 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe cause of hypertrophy of the heart has aroused the interest of pathologists and clinicians for more than three centuries. The hypertrophy of skeletal muscle after increased effort led to the belief that, similarly, cardiac muscle hypertrophied because of increased work. Hypertrophy of the left ventricle in patients with hypertension or aortic insufficiency, and hypertrophy of the right ventricle in pulmonary stenosis or tricuspid valvular disease lent plausibility to this theory.Certain phenomena, however, associated with hypertrophy of the cardiac musculature have not been readily explicable on the basis of the above hypothesis of increased cardiac work. In animals in...References1. BARTELSSMITH ECHL: Gross cardiac hypertrophy in myocardial infarction, Am. Jr. Med. Sci., 1932, clxxxiv, 452. CrossrefGoogle Scholar2. BLANDWHITEGARLAND EFPDJ: Congenital anomalies of the coronary arteries: report of an unusual case associated with cardiac hypertrophy, Am. Heart Jr., 1933, viii, 787. CrossrefGoogle Scholar3. BOASLANDAUER EPW: The effect of elevated metabolism on the hearts of frizzle fowl, Am. Jr. Med. Sci., 1933, clxxxv, 654. CrossrefGoogle Scholar4. BOASLANDAUER EPW: The effect of elevated metabolism on the heart of frizzle fowl. II. 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