Heart diseases

Typed case summary, photographs, charts, report and autopsy report relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 17 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: multiple cerebral abscesses; aphasia; drowsiness; hemiplegia; intraventricular septal defect; facial palsy; congenital heart disease; pulmonary tuberculosis; and congenital pulmonary stenosis. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Typed case summary, report, note and correspondence relating to female fromEdinburgh and the Lothians aged 45 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: dysphasia; spastic hemiplegia; cerebral embolism; and mitral heart disease. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Autopsy report relating to female patient aged 46 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: head injury; fractured tibia and fibula; traumatic pericarditis; pulmonary oedema; petechial haemorrhages in brain; and liver trauma. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 70 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: headaches; hyperaesthesiae; and progressive arteriosclerotic heart disease. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to male patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 56 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: essential hypertension; subarachnoid haemorrhage; headache; and myocardial ischaemia. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts, autopsy report and correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 47 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: aneurysm; subarachnoid haemorrhage; and ventricular hypertrophy. Surgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Correspondence relating to male patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 58 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: attacks of syncope; aortic stenosis; and diastolic hypertension. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, charts and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 41 at first examination in 1954. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; tachycardia; low backache; prolapsed intervertebral disc; and myocardial trouble. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Typed case summary, autopsy report, reports, charts and correspondence relating to female patient from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 63 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: facial paresis; hemiparesis; loss of consciousness; carcinoma of breast; meningeal and cerebral carcinomatosis; metastasis in brain and liver; and cardiac arrest. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.