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AN increasing number of case reports and some surveys on post-mortem material, showing varying degrees of myocardial involvement more frequently than clinical observation might have led one to suspect, call for a revision of the generally expressed belief that infectious processes of children, with the exception of rheumatic disease and diphtheria, rarely affect the myocardium. Saphir's1 demonstration of 97 cases of myocarditis in 1420 consecutive autopsies in children (6.83 per cent), as compared with 150 instances of myocarditis found during the same period in 3712 autopsies on adults (4 per cent), speaks strongly for the necessity of a deeper inquiry . . .
Tedeschi et al. (Thu,) studied this question.