GONORRHEAL ENDOCARDITIS; A REPORT OF THREE CASES, ONE TREATED WITH FEVER THERAPY
Authors: Lyman H. Hoyt, Harry A. Warren
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1938)

Article1 November 1938GONORRHEAL ENDOCARDITIS; A REPORT OF THREE CASES, ONE TREATED WITH FEVER THERAPYLYMAN H. HOYT, M.D., F.A.C.P., HARRY A. WARREN, M.D.LYMAN H. HOYT, M.D., F.A.C.P., HARRY A. WARREN, M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-12-5-675 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThere have been numerous reports of the treatment of gonorrheal infections with fever therapy during the past few years. These reports have dealt mainly with cases of gonorrheal arthritis, though gonorrheal pelvic inflammatory disease and other local manifestations of the infection also have been treated successfully by heat therapy. We wish to report a case of gonorrheal endocarditis treated by fever therapy unsuccessfully, and also to report two cases of gonorrheal endocarditis not previously reported. Freund and Anderson reported the recovery of a case of gonorrheal endocarditis treated by hyperpyrexia at the First International Conference on Fever Therapy in March...Bibliography1. WILLIAMS RH: Gonococcal endocarditis treated with artificial fever (Kettering hypertherm), ANN. INT. MED., 1937, x, 1766. Google Scholar1a. KRUSENELKINS FHEC: Fever therapy for gonococcemia and meningococcemia with associated endocarditis: report of two cases, Proc. Staff Meet. Mayo Clin., 1937, xii, 324. Google Scholar2. CARPENTERBOAKMUCCIWARREN CMRALASL: Studies on the physiological effects of fever temperatures, Jr. Lab. and Clin. Med., 1933, xviii, 981. Google Scholar3. THOMPSONSHEARDLARSON LCN: The effect of heat at 107° F. (41.8° C.) on various bacteria, Proc. Staff Meet. Mayo Clin., 1936, xi, 319. Google Scholar4. DESJARDINSSTUHLERPOPP AULGWC: Fever therapy for gonococcic infections. XII, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1936, cvi, 690. CrossrefGoogle Scholar5. FULTONLEVINE MNSA: Subacute bacterial endocarditis with special reference to the valvular lesions and previous history, Am. Jr. Med. Sci., 1932, clxxxiii, 60. CrossrefGoogle Scholar6. THAYER WS: On the cardiac complications of gonorrhea, Bull. Johns Hopkins Hosp., 1922, xxxiii, 36. Google Scholar7. THAYER WS: Studies on bacterial (infective) endocarditis, Johns Hopkins Hospital Rep., 1926, xxii, 1. Google Scholar8. HAMMANWAINWRIGHT LCW: The diagnosis of obscure fever. II. Diagnosis of unexplained high fever, Bull. Johns Hopkins Hosp., 1936, lviii, 307. Google Scholar9. POPPERWEIDMAN HA: Ueber gonotoxichen Ikterus, Ztschr. f. klin. Med., 1937, cxxxi, 258. Google Scholar10. BAKSTFOLEYLAMB HJJAME: Gonorrheal septicemia and erythema nodosum, ANN. INT. MED., 1935, ix, 790. Google Scholar11. DIEULAFOY G: Gonococcic septicemia, Internat. Clin., 1909, iii, 59. Google Scholar12. SOLOMONHURWITZWOODALLLAMB PDMME: Diagnosis of gonococcus endocarditis, Arch. Int. Med., 1933, lii, 1. CrossrefGoogle Scholar13. PERRY MW: Gonorrheal endocarditis with recovery, a case report, Am. Jr. Med. Sci., 1930, lxxix, 599. CrossrefGoogle Scholar14. PERRY MW: Further note on a case of gonorrheal endocarditis with recovery, Am. Jr. Med. Sci., 1933, lxxxv, 394. CrossrefGoogle Scholar15. WHEELERCORNELL GWNW: Gonococcal bacteremia in a woman with apparent cure by surgical intervention, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1930, xciv, 1568. CrossrefGoogle Scholar16. GARLOCK JH: Gonococcal bacteremia in a woman with cure by surgical intervention, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1931, xcvii, 999. CrossrefGoogle Scholar17. NEWMAN A: Prognosis in gonococcal endocarditis, Am. Heart Jr., 1933, viii, 821. CrossrefGoogle Scholar18. DEESCOLSTON JEJA: Sulfanilamide in gonococcic infections, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1937, cviii, 1855. CrossrefGoogle Scholar19. RHOADS CP: Meningococcus endocarditis, Am. Jr. Path., 1927, iii, 623-629. Google Scholar20. ROSSGREAVES CWFC: Gonococcic and meningococcic endocarditis, with report of three cases, U. S. Nav. Med. Bull., 1935, xxxiii, 179-183. Google Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Boston, Massachusetts*Received for publication August 17, 1937.From the Medical Service of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and the Fever Therapy Department of the Boston Psychopathic Hospital. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited bySubacute bacterial endocarditis of nonstreptococcic etiology 1 November 1938Volume 12, Issue 5Page: 675-687KeywordsEndocarditisGonorrheaHyperthermiaInfectious diseasesInflammatory arthritisMedical servicesPelvic inflammatory disease ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 November 1938 PDF downloadLoading ...