Cardiopathy of Obesity — A Not-So-Victorian Disease
- 6 February 1986
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 314 (6) , 378-380
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm198602063140608
Abstract
The "fatty heart" (cor adiposum or adipositas cordis) was a very fashionable disease in the last century, and much ink was wasted on this topic in the textbooks of Covisart, Laennec, Stokes, Rokitansky, and others. Ever since Senac1 described a patient who died suddenly because pericardiac layers of fat suffocated the heart, the evil reputation of the fatty heart has been well established. However, fatty heart remained a "wastebasket diagnosis" that comprised (as we realize now in retrospect) such heterogeneous disorders as ischemic heart disease, beer-drinker's heart, myocarditis, and perimyocardial fat infiltration. For many decades, "fatty heart" was a confusing . . .Keywords
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