The Histology of the Aortic Wall in Acute Rheumatism *This Essay was awarded the Martyn Memorial Pathological Scholarship for 1929.From the University Centre of Cardiac Research, General Hospital, Bristol.
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of unusual changes in the media. He gives an account of three necropsies of consecutive cases of rheumatic fever in young patients. The intima was not altered, but the media was thickened by increase of vascular elements, oedema and perivascular infiltration, with abundance of leucocytes and plasma cells. He noted signs of fibrous repair, and mentioned the possibility of this change predisposing to aneurysm. Coombs3 in 1908 notes the presence of whitisli-yellow patches at * This Essay was awarded the Martyn Memorial Pathological Scholarship for 1929. Prom the University Centre of Cardiac Research, General Hospital, Bristol.
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