Two Cases of Cardiac Murmur Caused by Deformity of Spinal Column

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  • FURUSE Akira
    the Department of Thoracic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo
  • MIZUNO Akira
    the Department of Thoracic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo
  • ITO Kenji
    the Department of Thoracic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo
  • SAIGUSA Masahiro
    the Department of Thoracic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo

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  • Two cases of cardiac murmur caused by deformity of spinal column(Case reports)

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SKELETAL deformities of the thorax are known to produce functional disturbances of the cardiopulmonary system. A number of cases of funnel chest and thoracic kyphoscoliosis have been reported to cause cardiac failure. In this communication we report 2 cases of cardiac murmur caused by the deformity of the thorax due to congenital abnormalities of the spinal column. Case 1 was attributed to a relatively new clinical entity called “straight back syndrome” and Case 2 was a member of a family affected by Morquio Brailsford's disease.

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