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...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...
Nasser does not look like a man with a chip on his shoulder. He carries 200 Ibs. with the lithe grace of a big, handsome All-America fullback. His wiry, close-cropped hair is greying at the temples and thinning just above the forehead, where there is a faint scar made by a police club. He has a big, slightly hooked nose and a close-trimmed black mustache, a row of regular, white teeth and a brilliant, easy smile. His eyes are piercing and brown, and he talks quietly, gently, and has never been known to raise his voice...