The coronary arteries are diffusely involved by atherosclerotic plaques in fatal acute
myocardial infarction (AMI). The degree of luminal narrowing may vary but plaques are …

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 …

Observations made from histologie study of the entire extramural coronary arterial tree are
described in 107 patients who died of acute ischemie heart disease: seventy-four had …

To better define the relations among acute and chronic coronary arterial lesions and
different syndromes of acute ischemic heart disease, the clinicopathologic findings in 100 …

Serial angiographic studies of patients with myocardial infarction and unstable angina
suggest that the culprit plaque underlying a thrombus need not have produced severe …

On the basis of medicolegal autopsy series from large metropolitan cities, it has been
thought that only 10 percent of patients dying suddenly from coronary atherosclerosis show …

The pathology of sudden cardiac death still is a matter of controversy, particularly with
respect to the state of the coronary arteries. A recent study has shown a high incidence of …

A NUMBEROF NECROPSY STUDIES have shown that among patients with fatal ischemic
heart disease (IHD) at least one and usually two of the three major coronary arteries are …

The frequency and clinical significance of platelet/fibrin microemboli in the microcirculation
were investigated in 24 patients whose deaths (before and during hospital admission) were …

Atherosclerotic plaque rupture with superimposed thrombosis is recognized as the lesion
causing> 90% of acute myocardial infarctions. To determine the severity of atherosclerosis …