Angina Pectoris Following a Crushing Accident

Trauma, it is generally agreed, plays an unimportant part in the etiology of heart disease, but occasionally, as in the preceding paper by O'Farrell (1939), an injury provides an interesting and unusual problem. In the case that follows, the absence of any electrocardiograms soon after the accident makes the evidence incomplete, but it is the best instance seen by the writer of an injury producing a picture very similar to that of a cardiac infarct.