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(Circulation. 1957;16:27.)
© 1957 American Heart Association, Inc.

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Acute Reversible Heart Failure in Africans

H. GRUSIN M.B., B.CH., M.R.C.P. (Lond.)¹

¹ From the Baragwanath Hospital and the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Sixteen cases of acute reversible heart failure were observed in the native African. On the basis of their responses to dietary and vitamin therapy they were divided into various etiologic groups. The clinical manifestations are described and the relationship of these cases to idiopathic cardiac hypertrophy of Africans is discussed.