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II. ULTIMATE PROGNOSIS

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

Arch Intern Med. 1941;68(6):1215-1231.

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In recent years there has been a growing appreciation of the fact that not only do patients recover from acute myocardial infarction but often they can return to a reasonably normal way of life for some years. In his report in 1912, Herrick¹ pointed out that myocardial infarction was not necessarily fatal. However, for the next fifteen years, emphasis was placed on the clinical and the electrocardiographic diagnosis of this disease, and not until recently was attention directed to the course of those patients who survived an acute episode. Interest was no doubt stimulated by isolated reports² of persons who lived long and active lives after recovering from an acute attack. In this connection, it is interesting to note that Ryle³ inferred, from Sir Everard Home's accounts, that John Hunter lived for twenty years after a typical acute coronary occlusion. However, as Levine⁴ and Levy⁵ . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BOSTON; ANN ARBOR, MICH.

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

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