Some effects of louse-borne relapsing fever on the function of the heart
| Autor: | P.L. Perine, E.H.O. Parry, D. Vukotich, David A. Warrell, A.D.M. Bryceson |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Pathology Myocarditis relapsing fever Central Venous Pressure Hemodynamics Blood Pressure Cardiomegaly Pulmonary Edema Disease Vectors Body Temperature Electrocardiography Hypocapnia Pulmonary Heart Disease Heart Rate medicine.artery Internal medicine Phthiraptera Medicine Animals Humans cardiovascular diseases Louse-Borne Relapsing Fever business.industry Rectum Relapsing Fever Heart General Medicine medicine.disease Radiography Blood pressure Blood chemistry Pulmonary artery Cardiology Ethiopia business |
| Popis: | Clinical, electrocardiographic and hemodynamic studies were made in thirty-one patients with louse-borne relapsing fever in Ethiopia; more detailed physiologic studies were made in a further nineteen patients. Evidence of an abnormal myocardium was obtained and transient acute cor pulmonale was found to occur after the reaction to treatment. No simple correlation could be established between clinical signs and electrocardiographic and hemodynamic evidence of myocardial damage. A statistically significant correlation was found between prolonged QT c and relative acidemia before treatment and between T wave abnormalities and hypocapnia during the chill phase of the febrile reaction following treatment. |
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