TY - JOUR
AU - Schwensen, Carl
AB - CARL SCHWENSEN Prom Bleadams-Hospitol, Copenlwgen For the last 25 years of the past century clinicians have agreed on the serious significance of the symptoms of cardiac weakness during an attack of diphtheria, and numerous are the publications on this question. All authors hold that the chief features are: murmurs, dilatation and irregularities of the rhythm of the heart. Unfortunately, they have not been able to record the latter graphically, but several, such as Dubrisay,' and Huguenin," describe this abnormal rhythm distinctly, in fact so distinctly that we are able to classi fy many of the disturbances. After the study of the rhythm of the heart gained ground in the ordinary clinical examinations, the following cases were published with sufficient graphic evidence. Cases of acute heart-block by: B~e,3 Fleming and Kennedy," Hecht,~ Hume," and Rohmer.' A most interesting case of acute heart-block combined with auricular fibrillation is reported by J. Parkinson," His patient first developed complete heartblock; 4 days later auricular fibrillation set in. The fibrilla­ tion was, as shown by the electrocardiograph, still present 6 months after its onset. This is the only case of auricular fibrillation during diphtheria recorded with definite evidence. In a case recorded by Price 
TI - The heart rhythm in diphtheria
JF - Journal of Infectious Diseases
DO - 10.1093/infdis/30.2.279
DA - 1922-02-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-heart-rhythm-in-diphtheria-q9IkSH71b3
SP - 279
EP - 298
VL - 30
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
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