PREGNANCY COMPLICATING SUBACUTE BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS
REPORT OF A CASE WITH IMMUNOLOGIC STUDIES
- JOSEPH FELSEN, M.D.;
- HENRY SCHUMER, M.D.;
- A. G. OSOFSKY, M.A.
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Our purpose in this report is to present the clinical, bacteriologic, pathologic and immunologic observations in a case of subacute bacterial endocarditis complicated by pregnancy. Death of the mother occurred sixteen days after the delivery of a full term healthy infant.
Pregnancy complicating subacute bacterial endocarditis is of infrequent occurrence. Croom1 reports six cases in the literature up to 1906. The subject is further reviewed by Cameron,2 and Walser3 in 1928 adds two cases of his own in one of which the mother gave birth to a healthy infant. Our chief concern in the present communication is to explain, if possible, the immunity of the fetus to the infection, which was definitely demonstrated to be a septicemia in the mother during the entire ninth month of gestation.
REPORT OF CASE C. A., a woman, aged 25, was admitted to the Bronx Hospital Jan. 3, 1936, during the
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Dr. Meyer Rosensohn and Dr. Harry Aranow, attending obstetricians, cooperated in carrying out these studies.
