Status of central hemodynamics in persons with a history of diagnosed primary rheumocarditis in childhood
Klubova, A.F.; Selivonenko, V.G.
Terapevticheskii Arkhiv 57(8): 123-125
1985
ISSN/ISBN: 0040-3660 PMID: 4071427 Document Number: 256237
Ninety-eight subjects with a diagnosis of primary rheumocarditis made at a pediatric clinic in childhood were examined for the central hemodynamics by tetrapolar chest rheography. Based on a clinical and instrumental study rheumatic heart disease was diagnosed in 3 subjects; in 37 subjects, no heart pathology was recognized; myocarditic cardiosclerosis was diagnosed in 22, obesity in 20, and neurocirculatory dystonia of the cardial type in 16 subjects. The data obtained point to the overdiagnosis of rheumatic fever.