A Case of Patent Ductus Arteriosus with Infective Endocarditis
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as an in-patient in the First Physician's wards of to General Hospital, Madras, complaining of oedema ? the whole body and passing scanty urine for one moot previously. He was perfectly all right before this attach which began with swelling of the face, the swelling extending to other parts of the body afterwards He did not complain of fever or of breathlessness. On admission the patient had a mild degree 0
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