Long-Term Follow-Up of Patients With Healed Bacterial Endocarditis

Article1 November 1957LONG-TERM FOLLOW-UP OF PATIENTS WITH HEALED BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITISBUFORD HALL, M.D.BUFORD HALL, M.D.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-47-5-880 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe subsequent course of patients who are able to leave the hospital after bacteriologic cure of bacterial endocarditis has aroused considerable interest and some controversy, although relatively little published data exist. Most reports are concerned with a short period of follow-up of a few months to one year. The present study was undertaken in an attempt to provide more data on the long-term prognosis of patients with healed endocarditis.METHODS AND RESULTSDuring the seven years 1944 through 1950, 32 patients with bacterial endocarditis were admitted to the University of Illinois Research and Educational Hospitals. Some of the diagnostic and...Bibliography1. Hall B: The management of bacterial endocarditis. With notes on 65 treated cases, M. Clin. North America 41: 185, 1957. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. KaplanRosenmanKatzBrams SRRHLNWA: Healed subacute bacterial endocarditis, a new entity, J. A. M. A. 141: 114, 1949. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar3. MendelsonCahuéKatzBrams CEALNWA: Long-term outlook for healed subacute bacterial endocarditis, J. A. M. A. 160: 437, 1956. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar4. SegalHarveyHufnagel JWPC: A clinical study of one hundred cases of severe aortic insufficiency, Am. J. Med. 21: 200, 1956. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar5. PriestSmith WSJM: The effect of healed subacute bacterial endocarditis on cardiac dynamics, Arch. Int. Med. 95: 646, 1955. CrossrefGoogle Scholar6. PillsburyFiese PLMJ: Subacute bacterial endocarditis. Follow up study of thirty patients treated with penicillin, Arch. Int. Med. 85: 675, 1950. CrossrefGoogle Scholar7. DonzelotLeBojecKaufmannEscalle EJMHJE: Le pronostic de l'endocardite infectieuse subaiguë traitée par les antibiotiques: résultats du traitement de 202 cas, Arch. d. mal. du cœur 46: 97, 1953. MedlineGoogle Scholar8. HenriksenNeukirch EF: The treatment of subacute bacterial endocarditis, Danish M. Bull. 2: 208, 1955. MedlineGoogle Scholar9. Medical forum on prognosis in cured bacterial endocarditis, Mod. Med. 23: 139, 1955. Google Scholar10. CastlemanBland BEF: Clinicopathological conference, Case 42271, New England J. Med. 255: 39, 1956. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar11. HepperBurchellEdwards NGHBJE: Mitral insufficiency in healed unrecognized bacterial endocarditis, Proc. Staff Meet., Mayo Clin. 31: 659, 1956. MedlineGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Chicago, Illinois*Received for publication March 29, 1957.From the Department of Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine, and Research and Educational Hospitals, Chicago, Illinois.Requests for reprints should be addressed to Buford Hall, M.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Illinois College of Medicine, 840 South Wood Street, Chicago 12, Illinois. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byInfective endocarditis with negative blood culturesHealed left-sided infective endocarditis: A clinicopathologic study of 59 patientsInfective Endocarditis in the Antibiotic EraSudden, Severe Aortic InsufficiencyBacterial endocarditisDamage to the Aortic Valve as a Cause of Death in Bacterial EndocarditisLAWRENCE COHEN, M.D., LAWRENCE R. FREEDMAN, M.D.BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS IN SYDNEY 1950‐1959Erkrankungen des EndokardBACTERIAL ENDOCARDITISBacterial Endocarditis in the Antibiotic EraThe Antibiotic Therapy of Bacterial Endocarditis: Therapeutic Data on 172 Patients Seen frOIll 1951 Through 1957: Additional Observations on Short-TerIll Therapy (Two Weeks) for Penicillin- Sensitive Streptococcal Endocarditis 1 November 1957Volume 47, Issue 5Page: 880-888KeywordsAntibioticsEndocarditisHospital medicineTuberculosis ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 November 1957 PDF downloadLoading ...