Some symptoms associated with heart trouble—pain, shortness of breath, tingling in the upper extremity—may actually be caused by ulcer or other gastrointestinal diseases.
This point was made today by Dr. Henry A. Monat, Washington, D. C., speaking before the American College of Gastroenterology in convention here. Dr. Monat suggested that all cardiac and suspected cardiac patients should have a gastroin-
diarrhea and "heaviness" in the right upper stomach.
The only symptoms the young patient doesn't seem to have, he said, are the angina-like pains which in adults are often mistaken for coronary symptoms.
as well as a cardiac
testinal survey.
The diseases may co-exist, he said.
Dr. Monat presented several cases illustrating these points to the specialists in diseases of the stomach and intestines attending sessions at the Jung hotel. . Convention Ends
The group's 23rd annual convention ends today and its annual three-day course in post-j graduate gastroenterology be-
gins, tomorrow. Many of the ! doctors attending sessions in New Orleans will go to Mexico City Monday for a one-day regional meeting.
Scheduled this afternoon was a panel discussion on functional disturbances of the gastrointestinal tract.
PHOTO:DISCUSSING USE OF CORTISONE and its effects at the meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology yesterday are, from left, DRS. MUR-RELL KAPLAN, ALBERT SEGALOFF, FREDERICKF, BOYCE, and FLOYD R. SKELTON.
