CURE OF A CASE OF ACUTE ULCERATIVE ENDOCARDITIS
- 16 November 1940
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 115 (20) , 1712-1713
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1940.72810460001011
Abstract
Acute ulcerative endocarditis has been notoriously fatal. The prognosis was almost hopeless before the advent of chemotherapy. We report one case of acute ulcerative endocarditis which, because of the clinical cure, lends a more optimistic outlook in the treatment of this disease. REPORT OF CASE J. C., a white man aged 62, a sea captain in the merchant marine, complained chiefly of malaise and fever. The onset of the present illness occurred two weeks before he was seen, while he was returning from a port on the southern Atlantic seaboard, and was ushered in by an acute infection of the upper respiratory tract. It was accompanied by aches and pains throughout the body hut particularly marked in the neck. There were general malaise and a dry, hacking, nonproductive cough. There were irregular episodes of chills and fever, and on several occasions the patient had recorded temperature rises to 104 F.Keywords
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