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D Westveer

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PubMed1981

Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome.

Eighty-eight patients with preexcitation were studied to determine how 30 patients with documented spontaneous paroxysmal atrial fibrillation differed from 58 patients without this arrhythmia. Inducible reentrant tachycardia was present in 23 (77 percent) of the 30 patients with, versus 28 (48 percent) of the 58 patients without, atrial fibrillation (p less than 0.025). Heart disease was present in 13 (43 percent) of the 30 patients with, versus 15 (26 percent) of the 58 patients without, atrial fibrillation (not significant). Inducible reentrant tachycardia or heart disease, or both, were significant). Inducible reentrant tachycardia or heart disease, or both, were present in 29 (97 percent) of the 30 patients with, versus 34 (59 percent) of the 58 patients without, atrial fibrillation (p less than 0.0005). Of 51 patients with inducible reentrant tachycardia, 23 patients with atrial fibrillation did not differ from 28 patients without this arrhythmia with respect to clinical features and atrial, sinus nodal, or anomalous pathway properties, or cycle length of induced reentrant tachycardia. Spontaneous degeneration of induced reentrant tachycardia to atrial fibrillation was observed in 6 (26 percent) of 23 patients with, versus none of 28 patients without, atrial fibrillation (p less than 0.025). In summary, patients with preexcitation and documented spontaneous paroxysmal atrial fibrillation almost always have inducible reentrant tachycardia or heart disease, or both. It is likely that in many patients with inducible reentrant tachycardia, spontaneously occurring reentrant tachycardia relates to induction of atrial fibrillation. However, it is unclear why some patients with inducible reentrant tachycardia have atrial fibrillation and others do not. In many patients with organic heart disease, atrial fibrillation could relate to hemodynamic changes.

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PubMed1981

Bacterial endocarditis in the community hospital.

The clinical records of 66 patients with bacterial endocarditis hospitalized in three community hospitals in Saginaw, Michigan, from 1964 through 1979 were reviewed. Data from these nonreferral hospitals demonstrate that infective endocarditis often does not present to the primary care physician with classical physical findings. The etiological organisms were noted to change from being primarily alpha-hemolytic streptococci during the early part of the study to staphylococci and Streptococcus faecalis during later years. Narcotic addiction was a factor of increasing importance in the development of endocarditis and in the changing microbiology of this clinical syndrome.

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