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Paterson-Kelly syndrome occurs in cardiologically normal patients without underlying structural disease, trauma, or embolism.
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Challenges cardiac attribution in Paterson-Kelly syndrome; Level 5 evidence leaves etiology open for prospective study.
cardiologically normal.This therefore excludes all cases of maldevelopment, of birth trauma, of post-natal trauma, of embolism secondary to rheumatic endocarditis or congenital heart disease, and, of course, tumours, abscesses, etc.
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G. S. Kilpatrick (1964) studied this question. Paterson-Kelly syndrome occurs in cardiologically normal patients, excluding cases of maldevelopment, trauma, embolism secondary to heart disease, tumors, and abscesses.
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