Smoking and Myocardial Infarction

Comments and Correction1 April 1977Smoking and Myocardial InfarctionMARTIN JEFFREY FRANK, M.D.MARTIN JEFFREY FRANK, M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-86-4-509_1 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptTo the editor: The recent letter by Nixon and colleagues "Myocardial Infarction in Men in the Third Decade of Life" (Ann Intern Med 85:759-760, 1976), was thought-provoking. Six of the eight patients were cigarette smokers. Among these six patients, there were three with angiographic normal coronary arteries.There may be a causal relation between cigarette smoking and those young men with myocardial infarction and radiographically patent coronary arteries. Smoking may induce coronary artery spasm to produce a myocardial infarction; when a patient is studied after infarction, the spasm subsides and the vessels appear normal.Khan and Haywood (1) mention coronary...References1. KHANHAYWOOD AL: Myocardial infarction in nine patients with radiographically patent coronary arteries. N Engl J Med 291:427-431, 1974 CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar2. ARNETTROBERTS EW: Acute myocardial infarction and angiographic normal coronary arteries: an unproven combination. Circulation 53:395-400, 1976 CrossrefMedlineGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Cardiology Department Yater Clinic 1780 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W. Washington, DC 20036 PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics 1 April 1977Volume 86, Issue 4Page: 509-509KeywordsCoronary arteriesInfarctionMyocardial infarction Issue Published: 1 April 1977 PDF DownloadLoading ...