CORONARY EMBOLISM AND ANGINA IN MITRAL STENOSIS

Abstract

Coronary embolism has been considered a rare and often fatal mishap. The most frequently reported heart diseases causing coronary embolism have been syphilis and bacterial endocarditis (Shrader et al., 1956), so that coronary embolism might be expected to be decreasing in frequency. Our experience suggests, however, that its occurrence is by no means rare in rheumatic heart disease.