Word: lunges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cyanotic heart disease. "Blue babies" (with Fallot's tetralogy) develop similar signs, but when surgery has sealed the leak between the right and left sides of the heart, the clubbing and the discoloration dramatically disappear. If the pigmentation is not present, the spatulate fingers are usually due to lung disease...
...wife of New York's Democratic Mayor Robert F. Wagner, a quiet blonde from the staunchly Republican suburb of Greenwich, Conn., who, as hostess in the past ten years at Manhattan's executive residence, Gracie Mansion, entertained expedient thousands who roamed through the house pinching souvenirs; of lung cancer; in Manhattan...
When leading heart specialists from the U.S. and Europe gathered in New Orleans last week, the first and most significant report they heard was not exclusively about heart disease. A visitor from England re-emphasized some of the difficulties of diagnosing a lung disorder that has its origins in the blood vessels and eventually involves the heart...
Sudden Catastrophe. Clot-caused obstructions in the smaller arteries of the lungs are even more common. But they are less often recognized because their onset is insidious and they are harder to diagnose. This kind of lung disorder is different from the familiar bronchitis and emphysema, Dr. Goodwin emphasized. In those diseases, the trouble is in the air passages or the air spaces of the lungs themselves. With clotting obstructions, the trouble originates in the blood vessels. But in the long run, it has just as serious effects on breathing...
...Lung-artery disease is most likely to be diagnosed correctly, said Dr. Goodwin, if physicians have a suspicious eye and ear open for it. In difficult cases, a series of electrocardiograms may be decisive. And regardless of difficulty, it is important to diagnose the disorder early -when there is still hope of arresting it with anticoagulants. It probably is never "cured" in the literal sense, and only rarely is it reversed so thoroughly that the patient is freed of his handicap...