For the time being, acute myocardial infarction represents a history of success concerning
diagnose, management and treatment, whereas it was considered a fatal disease in the …

My POINT of. departure for this lecture is the thinking about coronary thrombosis as it was in
the 1940's and early 1950's. What is nowadays generally characterized clinically as …

The initiating events leading to acute necrosis of the myocardium are still largely unknown.
In the last decades an increased incidence of myocardial infarction has been noted …

The history of myocardial infarction (MI) diagnostics has gone through a continuous
evolution over the past century, when several new discoveries have contributed to …

Coronary stenoses may be either concentric without any potential for variation in the degree
of obstruction to flow or eccentric, where the cross-sectional area of the lumen can alter with …

In 1852, Rokitansky proposed that atherosclerotic plaques resulted from the organization of
thrombi [1]. Vichow [2] disputed this view, and since 1913 [3] investigations of …

Myocardial infarction is so common today that we easily forget that it is a disease that was
recognised only relatively recently. Yet sudden death that could have been produced by an …

Although over one hundred years have elapsed since the succinct mid-19th century
descriptions of thrombosis and thrombogenesis were published (1–5), widespread …

The clinical diagnosis of myocardial infarction (MI) relies on symptoms, electrocardiographic
findings, and biochemical markers (troponin, serum creatine kinase, creatine kinase-MB). 1 …

In the last two decades, improved treatment of elec-trical disturbances and cardiac pump
failure have reduced mortality after the ultimate, irreversible myocardial event of patients …