A case of visceral syphilis and cardiac malformation of combined etiology

Abstract

The described case of visceral syphilis is of interest from our point of view, both in terms of differential diagnosis and in terms of combined rheumatic and luetic heart disease with simultaneous specific central nervous system involvement.

Patient V., 53 years old, foreman of a tramway park, came to hospital No. 24 on 2/IV-38 with complaints of dyspnea during physical exertion, weakness, chest pains. He felt sick on 15/III-38, when shortness of breath when climbing stairs and pains in the heart area appeared.