Autopsy and clinical studies indicate that coronary thrombosis plays a key role in the
development of acute transmural myocardial infarction and possibly in unstable angina and …

Coronary thrombosis with myocardial infarction is an extremely serious disease to the
individual and to the nation. It kills at least 200,000 persons a year and cripples unknown …

Acute Coronary Occlusion. Different causes or mechanisms are involved in an acute
coronary occlusion. The lesion occurs frequently at the level of the extramural coronary …

The history of angina pectoris may be considered in three developmental periods. The first
extended from antiquity into the late middle ages during which numerous descriptions of …

It is a little over a decade since the acute management of myocardial infarction underwent a
revolution with direct intervention on the coronary occlusive lesion. This approach had …

1 Background In the second half of the 19th Century, physiologists observed that ligation of
a major coronary artery in the dog was immediately fatal. During that era, pathologists …

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 …

Advances in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of acute myocardial infarction (AMI)
and acute coronary syndrome (ACS) have been remarkable since the mid‐20th century …