• DOI:10.1007/s13353-018-0456-3
Corpus ID: 51718815

Disease not genetic but infectious: multiple tuberculomas and fibrinous pericarditis as symptoms pathognomonic for tuberculosis of Frederic Chopin

@article{Witt2018DiseaseNG,
  title={Disease not genetic but infectious: multiple tuberculomas and fibrinous pericarditis as symptoms pathognomonic for tuberculosis of Frederic Chopin},
  author={M. Witt and Artur Szklener and Wojciech M. Marchwica and T. Dobosz},
  journal={Journal of Applied Genetics},
  year={2018},
  volume={59},
  pages={471-473}
}

• M. Witt, Artur Szklener, +1 author T. Dobosz
• Published 2018
• Biology, Medicine
• Journal of Applied Genetics

Chopin’s heart, generally enlarged, presented morphologic features pathognomonic for fibrinous pericarditis presumably of tubercular origin: multiple nodular hyalinization foci—tuberculomas and fibrillary coating covering the whole surface of pericardium (“frosted heart”). We show that these features differ significantly from post mortem-formed inorganic crystalline deposits, mold colonies, or fat deposits known from various preserved anatomical objects stored for a long period of time. In our… Expand