RT Journal
A1 Abbott WD, Fay OJ
T1 COronary sclerosis in head injuries
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1941
FD March 15
VO 116
IS 11
SP 1052
OP 1053
DO 10.1001/jama.1941.62820110001006
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1941.62820110001006
AB This case is presented because it is pertinent to industrial medicine. Fishberg1 states that transient monoplegias may be the result of disturbed circulation of the brain, but White2 mentions that vertigo, faintness and syncope are rarely symptoms associated with heart disease. However, Barnes3 states that in these cases death may occur on exertion and that previous electrocardiograms may have failed to reveal evidence of coronary disease. In 1937 Willius4 reviewed 700 cases of coronary sclerosis and stated that in only 7 per cent was paroxysmal dyspnea manifested. The relation of heart disease is not commonly associated with injuries to the head, yet in reviewing a medicolegal case Russem5 remarks that "the courts were not as much concerned with the pathology present as with the possible relation of the accidental injury to the onset of heart failure regardless of the condition of the heart before the