MORTALITY, MORBIDITY AND TREATMENT OF MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION: A REVIEW OF 455 CASES
Authors: R L WOOTEN, F A KYSER
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1953)

Article1 February 1953MORTALITY, MORBIDITY AND TREATMENT OF MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION: A REVIEW OF 455 CASESRICHARD L. WOOTEN, M.D., FRANKLIN A. KYSER, M.D., F.A.C.P.RICHARD L. WOOTEN, M.D., FRANKLIN A. KYSER, M.D., F.A.C.P.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-38-2-247 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptDuring the past several years, numerous studies have appeared in the medical literature regarding the treatment of acute myocardial infarction. Mortality rates in this condition have been reported as varying from 81 per cent7 to 50 per cent,5 while the incidence of embolic phenomena is stated to vary from 1 per cent to 37 per cent. The use of anticoagulant therapy has been enthusiastically advocated by Wright,1 Nichol and Page2 and Parker and Barker.3 Other, more conservative investigators4, 5, 6 deny the need for routine use of anticoagulants in acute myocardial infarction.The practicing physician cannot help but be bewildered...Bibliography1. WrightMarpleBeck ISCDDF: Anticoagulant therapy of coronary thrombosis with myocardial infarction, J. A. M. A. 138: 1074, 1948. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. NicholPage ESSN: Dicumarol therapy in acute coronary thrombosis, J. Florida M. A. 32: 365, 1946. MedlineGoogle Scholar3. ParkerBarker RLNW: The effect of anticoagulants on the incidence of thromboembolic complications in acute myocardial infarction, Proc. Staff Meet., Mayo Clin. 23: 367, 1948. MedlineGoogle Scholar4. Sigler LH: Letter to the Editor, J. A. M. A. 145: 1004, 1951. CrossrefGoogle Scholar5. RussekZohmanWhiteDoerner HIBLLGAA: Indications for bishydroxycoumarin (Dicumarol) in acute myocardial infarction, J. A. M. A. 145: 390, 1951. CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar6. Rytand DA: Anticoagulants in coronary thrombosis with myocardial infarction, Arch. Int. Med. 88: 207 (Aug.) 1951. CrossrefGoogle Scholar7. MasterJaffeDock AMHLS: Treatment and immediate prognosis of coronary artery thrombosis, Am. Heart J. 12: 547, 1936. CrossrefGoogle Scholar8. MintzKatz LSLN: Recent myocardial infarction, Arch. Int. Med. 80: 205, 1947. CrossrefGoogle Scholar9. ParkinsonBedford JDE: Cardiac infarction and coronary thrombosis, Lancet 1: 4, 1928. CrossrefGoogle Scholar10. Mullins NL: Age incidence and mortality in coronary occlusion: a review of four hundred cases, Pennsylvania M. J. 39: 322, 1936. Google Scholar11. BarnumGarrGilbertFenn DRWRNCGK: Coronary thrombosis treated with xanthines, Quart. Bull., Northwestern Univ. M. School 24: 6, 1950. Google Scholar12. NayBarnes RMAR: Incidence of embolic or thrombotic processes during convalescence from acute myocardial infarction, Am. Heart J. 30: 65, 1945. CrossrefGoogle Scholar13. AskeyNeurath JMO: The prognostic significance of auricular fibrillation in association with myocardial infarction, Am. Heart Jr. 29: 575, 1945. CrossrefGoogle Scholar14. RosenbaumLevine FFSA: Prognostic value of various clinical and electrocardiographic features of acute myocardial infarction, Arch. Int. Med. 68: 913, 1941. CrossrefGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: *Read before the Regional Meeting of the American College of Physicians in Chicago, November 22, 1952. Received for publication August 20, 1952.From the Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Medical School and the Evanston Hospital. PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byDie Coronarerkrankungen. Coronarinsuffizienz, Angina pectoris und HerzinfarktAcute myocardial infarction in a city hospitalInterventricular Septum InfarctionA Comparative Study of Myocardial Infarction in the White and Negro RacesLONG TERM PROGNOSIS OF MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION. ANALYSIS IN RELATION TO RUSSEKS CLASSIFICATION OF "GOOD" AND "POOR" RISK CASES.Interventricular Septum InfarctTHE SELECTIVE USE OF ANTICOAGULANTS IN ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION BASED ON INITIAL PROGNOSIS*MORTON M. HALPERN, M.D., LOUIS LEMBERG, M.D., MARTIN BELLE, M.D., HERBERT EICHERT, M.D., F.A.C.P.The Long-Term Prognosis Following Myocardial Infarction, and Some Factors which Affect ItFactors Influencing Early Prognosis in Acute Myocardial Infarction. (An analysis of 320 recent cases) 1 February 1953Volume 38, Issue 2Page: 247-253KeywordsAcute myocardial infarctionAnticoagulant therapyAnticoagulantsDeath ratesHospital medicineMorbidityMortalityMyocardial infarction ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 February 1953 PDF downloadLoading ...