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According to Herrick's description in 1912,¹ and for several decades thereafter, acute myocardial infarction was considered to be an unheralded event — in lay parlance, the sudden "heart attack." By the middle of the century, it was recognized that this event may be preceded by angina that increases in frequency, severity, and duration and especially by angina at rest.² The term "preinfarction angina" was introduced to describe the prodrome. It is now clear that acute myocardial infarction heralded by preinfarction angina (now referred to as "unstable angina") and myocardial infarction without such a prodrome (i.e., unheralded myocardial infarction) occur with . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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