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Since it is very rare that cardiac tamponade due to myocardial rupture caused by infective endocarditis, occurs we are reporting this case. A 62 year old man, who had underlying diseases of pneumoconiosis and hypertensive heart disease, visited Chikuho Rosai Hospital complaining of chest oppression and general fatigue on Feb. 7, 1987. He was diagnosed as having ischemic heart disease by electrocardiogram. Two days later, he suddenly had chills and a fever, and the laboratory data showed leukocytosis and a positive C-reactive protein (CRP). The echo cardiogram showed mitral regurgitation (MR) and aortic regurgitation (AR), but neither vegetation nor pericardial effusion was observed. On Feb. 16, he was admitted with shock, and he died the next day. The blood cultures grew gram-positive cocci, respectively. From the clinical symptoms, chest roentgenogram and electrocardiogram, we suspected a cardiac tamponade. On autopsy findings, though coronary arteries were intact, the aortic valves had severe valvular adhesions, calcifications and hypertrophies. The rupture hole was observed in the left ventricles, which was just under the aortic valve through the pericardiac space. It seemed that he died of a cardiac tamponade due to the outflow of blood from this hole. On histopathologic findings of the cardiac wall, gram-positive cocci and many of neutrophils were observed.
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PMID:[An autopsied case of infective endocarditis with cardiac tamponade due to myocardial rupture]. 207 73

The aetiological spectrum of angiographically verified pure isolated mitral regurgitation (MR) was studied in 48 consecutive adult patients (35 males). Severe MR was found in 35 patients (73%) and moderate MR in 13 patients (27%). Mitral valve prolapse (MVP) syndrome was found in 21 patients (44%). These were younger than the rest of the study population (55 +/- 13 vs. 62 +/- 6 years, p less than 0.05) and 15 (71%) of them were men. Endocarditis and chordal rupture occurred in 19% and 43% of the MVP patients. Sixteen patients (33%) had MR secondary to myocardial infarction while only three patients (6%) had MR of rheumatic aetiology. Bacterial endocarditis, hypertensive heart disease, hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy and mitral annulus calcification were less frequently found. Mitral valve replacement was done in 20 (57%) of the patients with severe MR and MVP was the underlying disease in 15 (75%) of these patients. In conclusion, MVP is a frequent cause of pure isolated MR and of mitral valve replacement. In contrast to the preponderance of young females amongst MVP patients in population surveys, most of the MVP patients with MR in this study are middle-aged and elderly men.
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PMID:High occurrence of mitral valve prolapse in cardiac catheterization patients with pure isolated mitral regurgitation. 356 83

Analysis of the data from 7188 cases seen in the 1980s two general hospitals in Shanghai and comparison of the data with those in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s revealed that the percentage of heart diseases among the inpatients in medical wards increased in each decades, from 9.89%, 15.69% 20.91% to 23.54% respectively. The constituent ratios of different etiologic types of heart diseases changed. Coronary heart disease constituted the largest proportion, next in number was rheumatic heart disease and congenital heart disease was in the third place. The incidence of congenital heart diseases, myocarditis, cardiac dysrhythmias without organic heart diseases, cardiomyopathy and endocarditis increased and that of rheumatic heart disease, pulmonary heart disease and hypertensive heart disease apparently decreased, syphilitic heart disease was rarely encountered.
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PMID:[The trend of changes in etiologic types of heart diseases in Shanghai from 1948 to 1989]. 959 15