Smoking and Myocardial Infarction

Comments and Correction1 April 1977Smoking and Myocardial InfarctionMARTIN JEFFREY FRANK, M. D. MARTIN JEFFREY FRANK, M. D. Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps: //doi. org/10. 7326/0003-4819-86-4-509₁ SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptTo the editor: The recent letter by Nixon and colleagues "Myocardial Infarction in Men in the Third Decade of Life" (Ann Intern Med 85: 759-760, 1976), was thought-provoking. Six of the eight patients were cigarette smokers. Among these six patients, there were three with angiographic normal coronary arteries. There may be a causal relation between cigarette smoking and those young men with myocardial infarction and radiographically patent coronary arteries. Smoking may induce coronary artery spasm to produce a myocardial infarction; when a patient is studied after infarction, the spasm subsides and the vessels appear normal. Khan and Haywood (1) mention coronary. . . References1. KHANHAYWOOD AL: Myocardial infarction in nine patients with radiographically patent coronary arteries. N Engl J Med 291: 427-431, 1974 CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. ARNETTROBERTS EW: Acute myocardial infarction and angiographic normal coronary arteries: an unproven combination. Circulation 53: 395-400, 1976 CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Cardiology Department Yater Clinic 1780 Massachusetts Avenue, N. W. Washington, DC 20036 PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics 1 April 1977Volume 86, Issue 4Page: 509-509KeywordsCoronary arteriesInfarctionMyocardial infarction Issue Published: 1 April 1977 PDF DownloadLoading. . .