Population
85 patients who died 1 day to 6 months after a myocardial infarction
Design
Case_series
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Autopsy data in fatal MI caution against equating stenosis burden with prognosis; leaves open whether plaque vulnerability drives outcomes.
In patients dying shortly after a myocardial infarction, the extent of coronary atherosclerosis at autopsy does not correlate with clinical class or survival length, though patients with traditional risk factors die at a younger age.
Roeske et al. (1981) studied this question.
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