Cardiac Failure Associated with Acute Anemia
- 22 February 1945
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 232 (8) , 215-218
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm194502222320802
Abstract
IT HAS long been known that anemia has a profound effect on the heart. In 1857, Bamberger1 pointed out that cardiac enlargement was found in many patients suffering from chronic anemia, a finding that has since been confirmed by many observers. In 1931, Ball,2 for the first time, demonstrated such enlargement by x-ray and showed that the diameter of the heart returned to within normal limits after the anemia had improved. This finding also has been confirmed by other investigators.3 , 4 In 1939, Ellis and Faulkner5 studied the hearts of 64 patients suffering from anemia. Of 38 cases examined by x-ray, . . .Keywords
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