If the heart disease is advanced and the heart is in unstable equilibrium, especially if there is myocarditis or fatty degeneration, the heart is likely to break down in pregnancy or labor.
We cannot control the myocarditisof advanced tuberculosis by this or any other means.
The myocarditis of Tuberculosis so frequently encountered, especially in the advanced stage of the disease, may be controlled with the aid of Digalen.
Treatment similar to that advised for myocarditismay be followed in this disease.
Maclagan has advanced the opinion that a subacute myocarditis is not of uncommon occurrence in acute articular rheumatism, and may be unattended by endo- or pericarditis.
Hayden,[64] who states that the diagnosis of myocarditis is quite practicable irrespective of the accompanying inflammation of the membranes of the heart.
Maclagan[63] is almost the only authority who recognizes the occurrence of rheumatic myocarditisindependently of inflammation of the membranes of the heart.
As in this latter form the inflammation usually extends also to the valves, "any symptoms to which the myocarditis gives rise are lost in the more obvious indications of the valvulitis.
There is good if not conclusive evidence that rather sudden death in acute articular rheumatism is occasionally due either to diffuse myocarditis or to fatty degeneration of the muscle of the heart.
With the acute myocarditis developing, the apex beat is less positive, less accentuated, and later it becomes diffuse and even feeble.
In dry pericarditis with serious adhesions, or if adhesions occur as a sequence of acute pericarditis, the future prognosis is bad, as myocarditis may develop and sudden death or acute dilatation may occur.
The prognosis of a case diagnosed as chronic myocarditis or chronic degeneration of the heart is doubtful, as one cannot tell until several weeks or months of observation whether this particular heart also has fatty degeneration or not.
With all inflammation of the heart and the possibility of myocarditisdeveloping or being actually present, it is not advisable to use salines freely or often.
It is quite possible that the difference between digitalis success and digitalis nonsuccess or harm may be as to whether or not a myocarditis is present.
Unless the left ventricle can do its work well enough to maintain an adequate pressure of blood in the aorta, the coronary circulation is insufficient, and chronic myocarditis is the result.
Acute endocarditis can probably not occur without some inyocarditis, and myocarditis probably does not occur without some endocardial disturbance and perhaps some pericardial irritation.
If myocarditis has been diagnosed, the minor operations should be done if the patient does not soon improve.
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