Abstract
Sudden death, myocardial infarction and prolonged anginal pain without infarction are considered coronary events. As such the coronary event becomes one of the most lethal diseases to afflict mankind since over half of its victims are dead before they reach the hospital (1). In the hope of increasing understanding of the natural history of coronary obstructive lesions so that coronary events might be more accurately predicted and perhaps more reliably prevented, several clinical observations are presented that appear to be pertinent to the understanding of coronary events.
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Kattus, A.A. (1973). Relation of Coronary Events to Spasm of Coronary Arteries, Precariousness of Obstructive Lesions and Availability of Collateral Channels. In: Bloor, C.M., Olsson, R.A. (eds) Current Topics in Coronary Research. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 39. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9020-0_15
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