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Endocarditis, Bacterial

 Subject

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Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = Inflammation of the ENDOCARDIUM caused by BACTERIA that entered the bloodstream. ,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

PR3.696, 1942

 Item
Identifier: LHB40 CC/2/PR3.696
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, autopsy report, report and charts relating to male sergeantfromGreat Britain (excluding Scotland) aged 28 at first examination in1942 Conditions mentioned include: aphasia; facial weakness; hemiplegia; subacute bacterial endocarditis, cerebral embolism; atrophic cerebral lesion; and coma. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1942
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Bangour General Hospital Folder-based Case Notes / Bangour (EMS) Surgical Neurology Case Notes

PR2.6818, 1947-1948

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.6818
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary and correspondence relating to female patient from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 27 at first examination in 1947. Conditions mentioned include: headache; failure of vision; papilloedema; and bacterial endocarditis. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1947-1948
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 2)