Abstract On December 7, 1912 a great Chicago physician, Dr. James B. Herrick, published
his now famous paper in the JAMA in which he related for the first time the “Clinical Features …

Introduction. Coronary thrombosis with infarction of the heart as a clinical entity is a condition
which is generally classed among the rarities of medicine. Indeed, it is considered so rare …

Considerable argument still flourishes concerning the exact relationships which exist
between coronary artery thrombosis and athero-sclerosis and, more recently, even between …

It is a sobering experience to read the astute observations describing the link between
thrombosis and the clinical manifestations of ischemic heart disease made by some of the …

If thrombosis never took place in the human coronary artery, it is exceedingly doubtful
whether we would be too much concerned as we actually are, with coronary artery disease …

An extensive histopathological study was carried out on the hearts of 108 patients with
electrocardiographically proven acute myocardial infarction dying after admission to a …

SINCE the recognition of myocardial infarction as a clinical entity more than half a century
ago, it has been assumed that the lesion is caused, in the vast majority of cases, by acute …

IN RECENT years the role of coronary thrombosis as a precipitating cause of acute
myocardial infarction (AMI) has been questioned." Which comes first, coronary thrombosis or …

That heart disease is now the leading cause of death and that its mortality curve has been
rising steadily for the past twenty yeara are matters of comm. on knowledge. B7 the …

In recent years atherosclerosis has come to be regarded as a general disease, not confined
to the arterial tree alone, but associated in some manner with lipid metabolism and the …