THE EFFECT OF ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY UPON THE DEVELOPMENT OF MURAL THROMBOSIS FOLLOWING MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION

Abstract

A review of 132 patients dying as a result of myocardial infarction is presented. The statistically significant conclusion that may be drawn is that , in this study the incidence of mural thrombosis was less frequent in patients treated with anticoagulant drugs than in those not receiving this form of therapy. The degree of prothrombin control did not appear to influence the development of mural thrombosis in patients treated with anti-coagulants. Embolic accidents occurred more than twice as often in individuals with mural thrombosis as in those without.