Central Areolar Choroidal Sclerosis : A Histo-Pathological Study

Mrs. Bertha C., aged 56 (CIII, 2 in Pedigree Chart It; Figs 5 and 6, pp. 130, 131). At the time of examination (June, 1949) her general health appeared to be good, but some 21 years later she died shortly after an attack of coronary thrombosis. A postmortem examination was performed by Dr. W. J. O'Donovan, who found the cause of death to be necrosis and fibrosis of the myocardium, atheromatous coronary occlusion, and hypertension. There was in addition severe atheroma of the thoracic and abdominal aorta, the internal carotids, and the basilar artery; the openings of the ophthalmic arteries were markedly narrowed by atheromatous plaques.