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It has been studied in the ratio of cases of heart diseases to that of all diseases in our clinic for 10 years. Coronary sclerosis and heart diseases increased as increasing of ages, especially over 60 yrs old. It was suggested that aging is one of the most important factors in deterioration of heart failure in aged.
An attempt was made to study the bleeding in the digestive system in heart failure in aged. 313 cases of heart diseases were studied and it was shown that 11 cases of such 15 bleeding cases existed in over 50 yrs old, but it's etiology was unknown and their pathological finding was diffuse submucosal bleeding and petechiae in the digestive tract. There were no time relations between the deterioration of heart failure and such bleeding in the digestive system, and between such bleeding and death. Also their symptoms were abdominal pain, tenderness of the abdomen or muscular defence, but many of cases had precede diarrhea.
An attempt to clarify the relationship between some specific functional changes in the circulatory system and such bleeding in these patients was made.
There were 2 cases with digitalis intoxication before these bleeding, 4 cases with arrythmia, 5 cases with diuresis induced by diuretics (4 cases of them had arrythmia) and 10 cases with deterioration of heart diseases.
