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A 5-week-old girl presented with gastro-intestinal disturbance, dyspnea, and cyanosis, representing a rare case of congenital cardiac hypertrophy.
Case Report (n=1)
This paper reports a rare case of congenital cardiac hypertrophy in a 5-week-old infant, adding to the limited literature on the condition.
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May raise awareness of congenital cardiac hypertrophy in symptomatic neonates; case report leaves open need for further characterization.
Congenital cardiac hypertrophy—so called—is sufficiently rare, according to the literature, to warrant recording another case. Howland 1 has reported five cases and up to 1919 gathered reports which, including his own, made a total of twenty cases. Carrington and Krumbhaar 2 report a case in an infant, aged 12 months. REPORT OF CASE History .—Our patient, a girl, aged 5 weeks, was referred by Dr. W. R. Franklin because of gastro-intestinal disturbance, dyspnea and cyanosis. She was the second child, delivered normally, weighing 8 pounds, 2 ounces, and was breast fed most of the time. She passed from five to six green curd-like stools daily. On June 8, she had her first attack of dyspnea, and on defecation or passing flatus, perspired profusely. On June 10 she had another attack of dyspnea. We first saw her on June 11, when her temperature was 100 F., her weight, 8 pounds, 2
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A. J. Scott (1926) conducted a case report in Congenital cardiac hypertrophy (n=1). A 5-week-old girl presented with gastro-intestinal disturbance, dyspnea, and cyanosis, representing a rare case of congenital cardiac hypertrophy.
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