Large tonsils and adenoids in small children with cor pulmonale.

Large tonsils and adenoids in small children with cor pulmonale.

Although small children with large inflamed nasopharyngeal lymphoid masses have been part of human ecology since the move east of Eden, the syndrome of cor pulmonale consequent to upper airway obstruction was not described until 1965 (Menashe, Farrehi, and Miller, 1965; Cox et al., 1965). These and subsequent reports (Noonan, 1965; Luke et al., 1966) defined the clinical syndrome of noisy, ster...

Tonsils and adenoids.

The bacteriology of acute tonsillitis and the normal flora of the throat in children is interesting and somewhat puzzling. Several studies (Box, Cleveland and Willard, 1961; Reilly et al, 1981; Toner et al, 1986) have shown that the culture of throat swabs taken from children with a history of acute tonsillitis does not differ, in terms of organisms cultured, from those taken from normal childr...

Cor Pulmonale

ar+ Unsual obstruction is found in the pulmonary adH^' Electrocardiography in spite of many ari!^ ?ns ^ea<^s does no^ appear to have "ed much to our knowledge. Two new procedures, essentially clinical, have ^1 yet been made use of in unravelling the ystery of the genesis of Cor, Pulmonale. They of*(1) The removal of a lung. The reduction ? the vascular bed is not likely to be less than e one ca...

Cor pulmonale revisited.

I remember first being introduced to the term cor pulmonale in medical school, which was used to describe right heart failure due to chronic lung disease, and I still have a mental picture of the typical patient as a former heavy smoker, dyspneic at rest, and cyanotic with neck vein distention and lower extremity edema. However, even early catheterization studies of the normal and diseased huma...

Electrocardiogram in a woman with cor pulmonale.