Lutembacher's Syndrome Associated with Subacute Bacterial Endocarditis

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THE following case of Lutembacher's syndrome (interauricular septal defect and mitral stenosis) associated with subacute bacterial endocarditis is considered worthy of comment since it appears to be the fourth such case to be recorded in the medical literature.A forty-seven-year-old man was admitted to the hospital after he had suffered for 2 months from progressively more severe dyspnea, orthopnea and hemoptysis. The past history was entirely irrelevant except for an attack of apparent rheumatic fever 20 years earlier. In the interim he had been in active service in the Royal Canadian Field Artillery and had done work in a woolen . . .

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