Assessing the Severity of Coronary Lesions with Angiography

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Abstract
This issue of the Journal contains a report of a postmortem study of the coronary arteries, analyzed in detail with a morphometric technique.1 Studies of this kind appear less frequently now than during the 1940s and '50s, when, for example, the now classic postmortem examinations by Schlesinger2 and Blumgart3 and their colleagues were published. These studies contributed immensely to our understanding of the relation between coronary arterial disease, myocardial infarction, and clinical symptoms. They confirmed the opinions of such eminent clinicians as Herrick,4 who in 1912 had emphasized the many variables that influence the clinical manifestations of coronary artery obstructions . . .