Infective Endocarditis and Phlebotomies May Have Killed Mozart
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Infective Endocarditis and Phlebotomies May Have Killed Mozart
Thirty-five year-old Amadeus Mozart died in Vienna after an acute illness that lasted only 15 days but no consensus has been reached on the cause of his death. From many letters written by his farther it is almost certain that he experienced at least three episodes of acute rheumatic fever attack in his childhood, and a relapse of rheumatic fever was suggested to have killed Mozart, although de...
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عنوان ژورنال: Korean Circulation Journal
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1738-5520
DOI: 10.4070/kcj.2010.40.12.611