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Straight Back Syndrome.
Skeletal deformities of the thorax are known to produce functional disturbances of the cardiovascular system. Most of these deformities are usually benign, the only manifestation being a functional prmcordial murmur. As many of these murmurs are loud, they are often detected during a routine clinical examination for symptoms not of cardiac origin, and an erroneous diagnosis of heart disease may...
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ABNORMALITIES of thoracic configuration cani alter the iniformation derived from clinical assessment of the heart. Altlhouigh these alterations may he subtle, occasionally they may be sufficiently overt to produice signs that closely mimic organic heart disease. Pecttus excavatumn' 2 is a wvellrecognized thoracic deformity in this category. On the, other hand, absence, of normal thoracic kyphos...
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Straight Back Syndrome (SBS) has been recognized for over 50 years. Not to be confused with flat back syndrome in the lumbar spine, SBS patients present with an obvious loss of the thoracic kyphosis accompanied by apparent heart symptoms. The main purpose of this article is to describe a patient diagnosed with SBS, whose symptoms were successfully managed using spinal manipulative therapy as we...
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Familial prevalence of mitral valve prolapse in a Chinese population was determined in 22 propositi of whom 10 had straight back (group A), three had abnormally high metacarpal index (group B), and nine had neither (group C). Of 71 (32 male and 39 female subjects) first degree relatives screened, mitral valve prolapse was found in 19 (seven male and 12 female subjects) (26.8%). The familial pre...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: European Heart Journal
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1522-9645,0195-668X
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehp197