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Mitral Valve Stenosis

 Subject

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Subject Source: Medical Subject Headings
Scope Note: Notes = Narrowing of the passage through the MITRAL VALVE due to FIBROSIS, and CALCINOSIS in the leaflets and chordal areas. This elevates the left atrial pressure which, in turn, raises pulmonary venous and capillary pressure leading to bouts of DYSPNEA and TACHYCARDIA during physical exertion. RHEUMATIC FEVER is its primary cause.,Created For = LHSA-Dott

Found in 35 Collections and/or Records:

PR2.10045, 1949-1951

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.10045
Scope and Contents Typed case summary, notes, reports, charts, autopsy reports and correspondence relating to male from Scotland (outside Edinburgh and the Lothians) aged 52 at first examination in 1951. Conditions mentioned include: paraplegia; meningo-myelitis; loin pain; infected bladder; enlarged prostate; spinal tumour; vomiting; ulcers; bedsores; oedemas; faeces and urine incontinence; nausea; thrombophlebitis; sacral pressure sores; mitral stenosis; pulmonary congestion; bilateral hydronephrosis; and...
Dates: 1949-1951
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)

PR2.11880, 1952-1965

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.11880
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, charts, report, note and correspondence relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 42 at first examination in 1952. Conditions mentioned include: cerebral embolus; subarachnoid haemorrhage; aneurysm; mitral stenosis; hemiparesis; dysarthria; and degenerative vascular disease. Surgical and nonsurgical treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1952-1965
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)

PR2.12210, 1953

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.12210
Scope and Contents

Notes relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 41 at first examination in 1953. Conditions mentioned include: hemiparesis; homonymous hemianopia; mitral stenosis; cerebral embolus; and brain stem lesion. Nonsurgical treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1953
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 3)

PR2.14914, 1955

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14914
Scope and Contents

Typed correspondence and notes relating to female from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 45 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: epilepsy; seizures; vertigo; Meniere syndrome; mitral stenosis; bronchitis; and fibrillation. No treatment given. Patient discharged.

Dates: 1955
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 3)

PR2.14971, 1955

 Item
Identifier: LHB1 CC/24/PR2.14971
Scope and Contents

Typed case summary, photograph, autopsy report, chart and report relating to male from Edinburgh and the Lothians aged 48 at first examination in 1955. Conditions mentioned include: astrocytoma; mitral stenosis; glioblastoma multiforme; hemiparesis; drowsiness; and brainstem haemorrhage. No treatment given. Patient died in hospital.

Dates: 1955
Found in: Lothian Health Services Archive: Case Notes / Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh Folder-based Case Notes / RIE, Professor Norman Dott, Neurology, Ward 20 (part 3)