Myocardial Infarction Following the Administration of Tetanus Antitoxin

Abstract

MYOCARDIAL infarction is an infrequently reported complication of serum sickness in man. Rich and Gregory¹ comment on the rarity of autopsies in cases of serum sickness among human beings and the paucity of careful clinical studies of the heart in this condition. It has been suggested² that a greater number of coronary accidents would be found in such cases if the patients were more closely studied.Many recent textbooks of cardiology and allergy ignore serum sickness in a consideration of predisposing and precipitating factors leading to myocardial infarction. However, Scherf and Boyd³ admit that myocardial infarction may develop in cases . . .