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Volume 353:1205-1207 September 22, 2005 Number 12
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Eisenhower's Billion-Dollar Heart Attack — 50 Years Later
Franz H. Messerli, M.D., Adrian W. Messerli, M.D., and Thomas F. Lüscher, M.D.

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Fifty years ago this week, on Saturday, September 24, 1955, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was playing golf at the Cherry Hills Country Club outside Denver. On the ninth hole, he started to complain about an upset stomach. He suspected that it was indigestion, since he had eaten a hamburger with slices of Bermuda onion for lunch. Nonetheless, he decided to call it a day, and he returned home. Shortly after midnight, he woke up with severe chest pain. He asked his wife, Mamie, for milk of magnesia, but she was concerned enough to call his personal physician, Dr. Howard Snyder, . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Dr. F.H. Messerli is director of the hypertension program at St. Luke's–Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York; Dr. A.W. Messerli is codirector of the catheterization laboratory at St. Joseph's Hospital, Lexington, Ky.; and Dr. Lüscher is chief of cardiology at Herz Kreislauf Zentrum, Kardiologie, Universitäts Spital Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland.


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