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Original Research |1 July 1948

TREATMENT OF CARDIOVASCULAR SYPHILIS*

H. EISENBERG, M.D.

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Paragraph148781*Read at the postgraduate course on cardiovascular disease, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, as arranged by the American College of Physicians, April 23, 1947.
Paragraph148783†Surgeon (R), U. S. Public Health Service.
Paragraph148785Under the direction of Herman N. Bundesen, Senior Surgeon (R) (Inactive), U. S. Public Health Service; President, Chicago Board of Health.
  • Paragraph148781*Read at the postgraduate course on cardiovascular disease, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Illinois, as arranged by the American College of Physicians, April 23, 1947.
  • Paragraph148783†Surgeon (R), U. S. Public Health Service.
  • Paragraph148785Under the direction of Herman N. Bundesen, Senior Surgeon (R) (Inactive), U. S. Public Health Service; President, Chicago Board of Health.
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INTRODUCTION

Cardiovascular syphilis is frequently a problem to the internist. Ten to 15 per cent of cases of recognized cardiovascular disease, Blumgart1 has estimated, are due to syphilis. Statistical studies by Moore2 and by Leiby and Callaway and their coworkers3 indicate that there are approximately 240,000 patients with syphilitic cardiovascular disease in this country at any one time and between 20 and 30 thousand die annually from it. Since the time of Ehrlich, the treatment of this disease has been a controversial matter, and remains so today notwithstanding the widespread and effective use of penicillin in therapy of early syphilis.

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EISENBERG H. TREATMENT OF CARDIOVASCULAR SYPHILIS*. Ann Intern Med. 1948;29:71–78. doi: https://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-29-1-71

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 1948;29(1):71-78.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-29-1-71

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