Endocarditis after acupuncture and injection--treatment by a natural healer.
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Biomedical subjects
P Lunde
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[Bacterial endocarditis after treatment by a natural healer].
We describe a case of endocarditis caused by Propionibacterium acnes after a series of 'vitamin' injections and semipermanent acupuncture needle maneuvers by a natural healer. The patient had prosthetic heart valves. We found that the most probable source of infection was the treatment by the natural healer and therefore wish to warn against invasive treatment of such high-risk patients by laymen. If such treatment is insisted upon in spite of such warnings, antibiotic prophylaxis should be considered.
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Familial cardiomyopathy. Autosomally, dominantly inherited congestive cardiomyopathy with two cases of septal hypertrophy in one family.
A family with inherited congestive cardiomyopathy is presented. The diagnosis is based on clinical, morphological and laboratory evaluations. The first observed sign of the disease is arrhythmia and/or conduction defects. The onset of symptoms of pump failure is in adult life, and affected persons die within several years. Three persons have died suddenly. Septal hypertrophy was present in two affected persons. The mode of transmission is probably autosomal dominant. The recognition of arrhythmia as an early sign of the disease offers the opportunity of an early diagnosis.
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[Echocardiography in left atrial myxoma].
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Ventricular fibrillation after intravenous atropine for treatment of sinus bradycardia.
A patient with acute myocardial infarction and sinus bradycardia has been treated with 0.5 mg atropine intravenously. Shortly after the injection he showed a sinus tachycardia, then developed ventricular ectopic beats, ventricular tachycardia and ventricular fibrillation, which was treated successfully with electrical countershock.
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Abnormal pharmacokinetics of phenytoin in a patient with uraemia.
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Noninvasive diagnosis of fistula from abdominal aortic aneurysm to the inferior vena cava. Case report.
Rupture into the inferior vena cava was found in three (1.4%) of 211 abdominal aortic aneurysms operated on in an 18-year period, and in 4.4% of all 68 cases in which the aneurysm had ruptured. One of the three patients initially presented with isolated chest symptoms. All three survived surgical repair, though major bleeding occurred in one. Preoperative recognition of the characteristic clinical features of an aortocaval fistula is important. Computed tomography and ultrasound studies were used to confirm the diagnosis and visualize the anatomy before the operation in one case.
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