Abscess Formation in Myocardial Infarction

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Abstract
IN 1933, Cossio and Berconsky1 reported a case of coronary occlusion with myocardial infarction in which an abscess was found in the infarcted area at post-mortem examination. As far as we could ascertain, this is the only report in the medical literature of this unusual complication of myocardial infarction.The patient of Cossio and Berconsky was a sixty-four-year-old man who complained of the symptoms considered characteristic of myocardial infarction: severe precordial pain, weakness and a sense of impending death. The patient was hospitalized on the fourth day of illness and treated symptomatically. The signs of a bronchopneumonic process developed and . . .

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