Word: scarred
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week of healing. The dead muscle tissue in President Eisenhower's heart had been carried away in the blood stream by "scavenger" cells, and new building cells were coming in to set up the fibrous tissue that would be a scar on the front wall of his heart...
...location of the infarct (the damaged area resulting from loss of circulation) can be determined by use of the electrocardiograph (see chart). Although the electrocardiograph frequently fails to detect the atherosclerosis (narrowing of the coronary arteries) that precedes a thrombosis, it can accurately trace the healing process as a scar forms in the damaged area of the heart...
...first stage, the dead muscle tissue is carried away in the blood stream by polymorphonuclear leukocytes ("scavenger" cells), and at the end of about a week scar tissue starts to form in its place. This process usually causes fever and an increase in white blood cell count. But as the scar tissue-in Ike's case forming in the front wall of the heart-becomes stronger and more dead cells disappear, temperature and blood count return to normal. At the same time, the heart is developing collateral circulation. Immediately after a clot forms, the pressure drops in the area...
Although a scar has generally formed by the end of the second week, a third week of almost total rest is necessary to avoid such possible complications as permanent heart dilatation or rupture of the temporarily weakened heart wall...
Despite the great advances in medicines and surgery, the main treatment still is rest, so as to keep the work done by the heart at a minimum and allow time for scar tissue to form. In many cases of lesser severity, the period of complete bed rest is about three weeks, followed by convalescence of two or three months; in more serious cases, convalescence lasts six months or more. Doctors' long-term advice to most recovered coronary patients includes regular-but not strenuous-exercise, abstinence from tobacco, dieting against excess weight, and, insofar as it is possible, freedom from...