RECOVERY FROM SUBACUTE INFECTIVE ENDOCARDITIS FOLLOWING GENTIAN VIOLET THERAPY
- 24 January 1925
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA)
- Vol. 84 (4) , 278-279
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1925.02660300036010
Abstract
The prognosis in subacute infective endocarditis has in the past been regarded as extremely gloomy. Lenhartz,1after an experience of many years, found only one patient who recovered. Libman2has repeatedly emphasized the great seriousness of this disease, and Barker3states that every one of his thirty patients died. A patient with subacute infective endocarditis made such a prompt recovery following the intravenous use of gentian violet that the case seemed worthy of record. A colored woman, aged 25, admitted to the Bell Memorial Hospital, March 6, 1924, complained of shortness of breath and pain in the chest. Her family history was negative. The patient had had much trouble with her teeth and also frequent attacks of tonsillitis. Her history otherwise was negative. Five months before admission, the patient had a profuse menorrhagia and went to bed on the advice of her physician. There was some flowKeywords
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