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FATAL CARDIAC INFARCTION DUE TO PLATELET THROMBOSIS IN AN EIGHTEEN‐YEAR‐OLD YOUTH
Author(s) -
MATZ L. R.,
WURFEL L. J.,
SCHWARTZ C. J.
Publication year - 1964
Publication title -
australasian annals of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0571-9283
DOI - 10.1111/imj.1964.13.3.259
Subject(s) - thrombus , medicine , thrombosis , cardiology , myocardial infarction , platelet , occlusion , infarction , aneurysm , coronary artery disease , surgery
Summary A case of coronary artery occlusion with cardiac infarction and aneurysm formation in a normocholesterolæmic youth, aged 18 years, is described. One of the occlusions was a recent platelet thrombus, and the other, a recanalizing occlusion, showed extensive foam cell formation, suggesting that this too was of platelet origin. In neither instance was there any demonstrable disease of the arterial wall.