临床上,很多风湿性心瓣膜病患者并无急性风湿热病史。小鼠及猴的实验指出病毒可能是造成瓣膜病变的原因。作者曾在17例尸检中发现3例经免疫萤光检查显示在二尖瓣及心肌中有柯萨奇 B 病毒抗原。本文报道1例死于病毒感染(可能为柯萨奇病霉)心 Clinically, many patients with rheumatic heart disease do not have a history of acute rheumatic fever. Experiments in mice and monkeys indicate that the virus may be the cause of valvular disease. The authors have found in 3 of 17 autopsies immunofluorescence tests of Coxsackie B virus antigens in the mitral valve and myocardium. In this paper, 1 patient died of a viral infection (probably Coxsackie’s disease) heart