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(Circulation. 1960;21:448.)
© 1960 American Heart Association, Inc.

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Heart Disease and Filtrable Viruses

JOHN M. PEARCE M.D.¹

¹ From the Laboratory of Surgical Pathology, Departments of Surgery and Pathology, the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York, N. Y.

A number of filtrable viruses can infect the heart and there produce myocarditis, enadocarditis, and pericarditis. However, this action depends on a coexisting deprivation of oxygen to the heart.

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