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JOHN L. JUERGENS, M.D.; JESSE E. EDWARDS, M.D.; RICHARD W. P. ACHOR, M.D.; HOWARD B. BURCHELL, M.D.

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1960;105(3):444-450.

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This paper is to report the prognosis and ultimate cause of death of patients who have survived the acute phase of their first clinically diagnosed myocardial infarction. Richards and his associates¹ indicated that of their 162 patients who survived at least 1 month after an initial attack of acute myocardial infarction 79 (49%) were alive five years later. Their 10-year survival figure was 31%. Weiss² reported 60% 5-year survival and 36% 10-year survival in a study of 211 patients who had lived more than 2 months after the initial attack. In a similar follow-up study Cole and associates³ found 66% 5-year and 43% 10-year survival rates. An objection sometimes raised against such studies is that each series consists of selected patients who consulted a cardiologist or cardiovascular clinic because of the severity of the acute attack or because of a question regarding the diagnosis. Then, too, such . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Rochester, Minn.

Section of Medicine (Dr. Juergens, Dr. Achor, Dr. Burchell) and Section of Pathologic Anatomy (Dr. Edwards), Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation. The Mayo Foundation, Rochester, Minn., is a part of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication June 9, 1959.

This investigation was supported in part by Research Grant No. H 4014 from the National Heart Institute, Public Health Service.

Abridgment of thesis, with additions, submitted by Dr. Juergens to the Faculty of the Graduate School of the University of Minnesota in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Medicine.

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