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Preventing Cardiovascular Complications of Acute Infection: A Missed Opportunity?
Abstract "...This is an experimental verification of this medical concept, relatively new, suggesting that infections merit an important place in the etiology of human atheromatous arteritis..." -Gilbert A and Lion G, Comptes Rendus Hebdomadairesdes Séances et Mémoires de la Société de Biologie. Published 1889 The connections between infection and cardiovascular disease have been postulated for at least 125 years, when Gilbert and Lion observed that acute infection with the typhoid bacillus resulted in atherosclerotic changes to the rabbit aorta. In the last few decades, much work has investigated the role for...
Source: Circulation - February 12, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Walkey AJ Tags: Circulation Source Type: research