Case 37511

Presentation of Case First admission. A twelve-year-old Negro was admitted to the hospital because of shortness of breath.It was impossible to secure a complete history of the patient's illness. The parents had been divorced for many years and the patient, an only child, had lived with his grandparents in Georgia until nine months before admission, when he came to Massachusetts to live with his mother and step-father. He had been a full-term baby, had no known neonatal disease and had apparently developed normally. Two years before entry he developed shortness of breath, apparently associated with diminished appetite, failure . . .