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I. IMMEDIATE PROGNOSIS

FRANCIS F. ROSENBAUM, M.D.; SAMUEL A. LEVINE, M.D.

Arch Intern Med. 1941;68(5):913-944.

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Within the past thirty years myocardial infarction has risen from the position of a purely pathologic entity to the ranks of those diseases which are of first importance to the clinician. Those observers who were responsible for this rise include Dock,¹ Obrastzow and Straschesko,² Hochhaus³ and Herrick,⁴ all of whom were instrumental in first calling attention to the clinical picture of the disease. They were soon followed by a large group of others⁵ who made many valuable contributions. Beginning with the work of Smith⁶ and Pardee,⁷ a great number of electrocardiographic studies⁸ not only provided a means of confirming the diagnosis but made it possible to localize the area of necrosis in the heart muscle with a high degree of accuracy. As a result of these advances myocardial infarction has become "an easily diagnosable disease" (Christian⁹. In spite of this progress in knowledge of the condition, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
ANN ARBOR, MICH.; BOSTON

From the Medical Clinic of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and the Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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