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CLARK E. BROWN, M.D.; DELBERT H. McNAMARA, M.D.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1940;42(2):312-321.

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The fatal acute cardiac failure which sometimes intervenes during the course of exfoliative dermatitis due to arsphenamine is seldom anticipated clinically, and the microscopic appearance of the myocardium post mortem is even less expected.

The cases of such myocardial changes following the onset of arsphenamine dermatitis comprise part of the general group of instances of a condition designated as acute interstitial, isolated or Fiedler's myocarditis. The more than 40 recorded cases making up this general group have in common the apparently spontaneous occurrence of progressive myocardial failure and diffuse interstitial inflammation involving a thickened left ventricular myocardium, according to postmortem observations.

Fiedler in 1899 called attention to this peculiar nonspecific interstitial myocarditis, accounts of which first reached the American literature in 1929, with a review by Scott and Saphir.¹ They collected 30 cases and added 2 of their own but did not include Fiedler's cases because of their relative . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
SANTA BARBARA, CALIF.

From the Departments of Pathology and Internal Medicine of the Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital.

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