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Electrocardiographic Changes in Measles
Author(s) -
BENGTSSON ELIAS,
BERGLUND ANDERS
Publication year - 1954
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1954.tb04050.x
Subject(s) - medicine , measles , pediatrics , pathological , pathology , vaccination
Summary In a study of measles, 451 cases were examined electrocardiographically. Of these 409 were children and 42 were adults; pathological electrocardiographic changes were found in 2 of the children (that is to say less than 1/2 per cent), but in no less than 7 cases in the adults (16.7 per cent). The changes were of a transient nature and lasted on an average 2–3 weeks, except in one case in which a right bundle branch block arose in a 2‐year‐old child and was still present one year later.