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What is the degree and extent of coronary arterial narrowing in patients with fatal acute transmural myocardial infarction compared to controls?
What is the degree and extent of coronary arterial narrowing in patients with fatal acute transmural myocardial infarction compared to controls?
Patients with fatal transmural AMI have extensive and severe diffuse coronary atherosclerotic narrowing compared to controls, with men and those with prior transmural scars showing greater disease burden.
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Fatal AMI links to extensive severe coronary narrowing vs controls; confirms autopsy pathology but leaves open prospective in vivo validation.
Roberts et al. (1980) studied this question.
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