Reporting Maladie De Roger as a Familial Characteristic in Five Members of a Unique Family
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Maladie de Roger or Patent Interventricular Septum, as a clinical and cardiovascular entity, needs no introduction to the majority of practising physicians. In 1879, Roger, for the first time, gave a clinical description of this relatively asymptoniatic cardiovascular entity; his lucid exposition ! ?f the physical signs of this disease remains ; unrivalled to this day. It was Dupre, however, who confirmed Roger's contention in the autopsy room in 1891 and gave the entity its present designation of 1 maladie de Roger'. In the opinion of Brown (1939), maladie de Roger is ' possibly the commonest of all congenital abnormalities' of the heart. This opinion is shared by one of us (R. J. V.), having noted this abnormality of the heart in well over a third of all cases examined for congenital diseases of the heart. Unfortunately, in view of the paucity of symptoms, the condition is likely to escape recognition. Diagnosis of ! maladie de Roger is usually established on the basis of certain well-recognized characteristics, viz ^ (i) a peculiar absence of symptoms or Subjective manifestations; this is indeed striking Jn the presence: of such well-marked physical ; Slgns. (2) The presence of an ' almost ! pathognomonic' murmur, originally described i Vvtt "n -
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