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Iniciar sesión Crear cuentaPaul Kildea, "Benjamin Britten. A Life in the Twentieth Century", London: Penguin UK, 2013, ISBN-13:9781846142321
Beng Goh, a consultant physician and expert in syphilis, has examined the medical records and has separately concluded that Britten was "unlikely" to have been suffering from cardiovascular syphilis (a form of tertiary syphilis that affects the aorta and aortic valve) as claimed. According to Goh, the tissue samples taken from the composer's aortic valve, and written up in the medical notes, crucially revealed no evidence of syphilis. "To diagnose syphilitic aortic valvular disease, there should be evidence of vasculitis – inflammation of blood vessels," said Goh. No such inflammation was reported. In addition, said Goh, the notes reveal "there no other clinical features ... that would suggest syphilis as a possibility". For example, said Goh, in such a case one would expect to see calcium deposits on the aorta – "but this was not present in the chest x-ray".
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