AN ARTICLE CONTRIBUTED TO AN ANNIVERSARY VOLUME IN HONOR OF DOCTOR JOSEPH HERSEY PRATT
Authors: GEORGE BLUMER
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1937)

Article1 September 1937AN ARTICLE CONTRIBUTED TO AN ANNIVERSARY VOLUME IN HONOR OF DOCTOR JOSEPH HERSEY PRATTTHE IMPORTANCE OF EMBOLISM AS A COMPLICATION OF CARDIAC INFARCTION*GEORGE BLUMER, F.A.C.P.GEORGE BLUMER, F.A.C.P.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-11-3-499 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThe effect of sudden, non-fatal occlusion of one of the larger branches of a coronary artery is well known. The result, in brief, is the formation of an ischemic infarct involving that portion of the heart muscle supplied by the obstructed vessel, the so-calledmyomalacia cordis. The extent of this process depends on various factors, the more important being the size of the occluded vessel and the extent of development of vascular channels capable of taking part in the formation of a collateral circulation. 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