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Rat-Bite Fever , Adult , Forearm , Humans , Male , New Zealand , Rat-Bite Fever/microbiology , Rat-Bite Fever/pathology , Skin/pathology , Spirillum/isolation & purificationSubject(s)
Verapamil/poisoning , Delayed-Action Preparations , Drug Overdose , Heart Arrest/chemically induced , Humans , Male , Middle AgedABSTRACT
We report two patients with severe Guillain-Barre syndrome who had serious cardiac arrhythmias. One patient died of asystolic cardiac arrest; the other patient survived with conservative management. The association between the syndrome and arrhythmias, and the difficulties in the management of the latter, are reviewed.
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Arrhythmias, Cardiac/etiology , Polyradiculopathy/complications , Adult , Arrhythmias, Cardiac/therapy , Heart Arrest/etiology , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Polyradiculopathy/therapySubject(s)
Cultural Characteristics , Culture , Family Characteristics , Intelligence , Adolescent , Child , Female , Humans , Independent State of Samoa , MaleABSTRACT
Organic disease of the tricuspid valve required surgery in 18% of all patients undergoing valve replacement over a five-year period. Differentiation of organic from functional disease is difficult and may be made only at open-heart surgery. The results of a series of 56 patients who underwent tricuspid valve replacement are presented; of these, 53 had organic disease. Operative mortality at the end of five years had fallen to 7% with significant clinical improvement in 79% of patients, a reduction in cardiothoracic ratio in 81%, and a low incidence of postoperative tricuspid incompetence.
