L. H. Opie

Foreword In industrialized countries, ischemic heart disease is by far the most common organ-specific cause of death. The thrombotic occlusion of a coronary artery which had previously been severely altered by atherosclerosis, is the most frequent cause of ischemic deterioration of myocardial...

Foreword Clinical, experimental, and epidemiological studies on ischaemic heart disease, hypertension, and cardiomyopathies have shown the need for more intensive investigation of the function of the myocardium and the morphological changes that take place in it. During the course of 1971, the...