The Effects of Cortisone and ACTH on the Acute Phase of Rheumatic Fever
- 1 May 1951
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Circulation
- Vol. 3 (5), 770-775
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.3.5.770
Abstract
Observations on 14 patients indicated that cortisone and ACTH do not cure rheumatic fever or shorten its duration, but that they suppress the proliferative reactions in the heart and thus diminish or forestall the subsequent reparative process which results in chronic cardiac disease.Keywords
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