Case of univentricular or tricoelian heart / by Robert Elliot.

  • Elliot, Robert, -1882.
Date:
1877
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Credit: Case of univentricular or tricoelian heart / by Robert Elliot. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ments. The right auricle is a good deal dilated, and its walls hypertrophied, the appendage is unusually capacious, and the musculi pectinati strong. The vestige of the Eustachian valve is visible. The valve of the coronary vein shews a perforation. At the upper and back part of the fossa ovalis exists a rather oblique opening which would admit an ordinarily sized goose-quill. This is the only communication between the auricles, and could not be the cause of the whizzing murmur. Nothing abnormal in the left auricle. ^ Foi^attEE cases of Malformation of Heart, see Reforts of Proceed- ings of Northumberland and Diorham Med. Soc. Session 1862-63, and ditto 1850, 1st by Dr Embleton and 2nd by Mr Wallis, South Shields, and again, 1858, in ditto, by Mr Bolton. Also, Dr Peacock’s work on “ Malformations, &c. of the Human Heart,” Brit. Med. Journ., Sept. 28,1872, p. 351, a case by James Johnson, M.B. of Birmingham, (Deficiency, not absence of sept. ventricuL), and the same Journ. for Jan. 11th, 1873, a “Case of Tricoelious Heart in which sept, ventricul. was absent, with figs, of exterior and interior,” by S. M. Bradley, P.R.C.S. of Manchester.