Adherent Pericardium in Children
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pericardium in children, the two most important of which are? (i) that adherent pericardium is the most common cause of enlarged heart in children, and (2) that this sequence of pericarditis is much more serious in its nature than valvular disease, and that children in whom it is present will probably never reach adult life. These facts are not new; but although known to those who have had experience of children, they do not appear to have received general recognition. The two writers
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