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“I am very much interested to learn of your unusual case of left coronary artery opening into the right auricle by a wide orifice…”
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“It is with greatest mortification that I have to write you and tell you that the condition about which I wrote to you in my previous letter was a mistake…”
Johnston, John M. – Merry Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pa.
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“We are sending you the heart of a five day old male infant, born at term with a normal labor. The child was well for three days after birth, when it became cyanotic and developed numerous atypical adventitious sounds over the praecordium…”
Katz, Louis N. – Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago
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“Thank you very kindly for the info in your recent letter.”
Kintner, Arthur R. – Mayo Clinic.
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“I recently had a case at autopsy in which an anomaly of origin and course of the left coronary artery was found. There was only one orifice, and this was in the location of the normal right coronary orifice…”
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“I was much interested in your letter describing the abnormal course of the left coronary artery…”
Kirsh, Milton, B. – Sinai Hospital of Baltimore.
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Regarding a request for two copies of articles on Coarctation of the Aortain adults. “…having made the clinical diagnosis twice when the past 3 years. One died of a rupture of the aorta and had apparently a complete stenosis just below the insertion of the ductus botali”
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From Abbott to Kissane, R.W. – White Cross Hospital, Columbus, Ohio
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“I have not answered your letter of March 20th pertaining to my article on ‘Intra-Uterine Heart Disease,’ because we have been sectioning the entire pulmonary valve. You will recall that you raised the question, as to whether the changes in the pulmonary valve were not antenatal, because in my original article, I stated that no Aschoff bodies had been found in this valve, while they were found in the mitral and the aortic…”
Kissane, R.W. – White Cross Hospital, Columbus, Ohio.
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