Word: valvular
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...causes other than rheumatic fever for disease of the heart valves; it is only relatively recently, however, that some have noted a link between birds and heart problems. To examine the connection, Cardiologist Christopher Ward and Immunologist Anthony M. Ward (no kin) questioned 257 patients under treat ment for valvular heart disease. They found that 125 had had rheumatic fe ver or a related ailment. But they fur ther discovered that of the 132 with no history of these illnesses, 83 (or 63%) had owned or handled birds. The doctors examined post-mortem tissue from 27 patients...
...doctor, says Author Donovan, did not tell Ike of his diagnosis, but "the President knew he was very ill . . . To avert shock to Mrs. Eisenhower, who has long suffered from valvular heart disease herself, Snyder sent her back to bed without telling her the President's true condition. Also, he put aside the idea of a public announcement because he feared that it would cause great excitement which inevitably would permeate the Doud house and might possibly kill the President. Sitting alone in the dead of night with his slumbering patient, therefore, Howard Snyder was the only...
...have a valvular noise, but listen to me and you'll live to be hung. If your horse car is leaving, don't run for it; take the next...
...after siring Diego by his wife and Fernando by the mistress of his widowerhood, contracted syphilis which Dr. Kemble contends is a New World disease. "With his limbs rigid and useless, his brain affected and his heart enfeebled, Columbus lingered on until . . .he died from cardiac failure due to valvular disease...
...perhaps best demonstrated by the 13-year-old, slightly retarded girl who was wheeled into the office in an attitude of extreme weakness and helplessness and with the most pitiful facial expression that can be imagined. When questioned as to her complaint, she stated whiningly: 'I have an auriculo-valvular disease,' a 'diagnosis' which, in conjunction with the attending parental apprehensions, had made a chronic invalid of the child...