Word: walls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...variety of immediate causes: a state of shock, ventricular fibrillation (a disorder of the heart rhythm in which the heart ceases to act as a pump) or, less often, the choking of the heart's action from the leakage of blood through the ruptured wall into the sac around the heart...
...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 beyond it, and blood enters the area by alternate routes, such...
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...
...This merges into an abnormal (inverted) "T" wave. After recovery from a mild attack, Lead I tracings return to normal except for the deepened "Q" wave. A more dramatic picture of changes is obtained from the V4 Lead, in which the electrode is almost directly over the damaged front wall of the heart...
...premise: President Eisenhower would be elected for a second term in 1956 and the U.S. economic boom would continue, unhindered by any political changes. As the news of Ike's heart attack shattered that confidence, the stock market suffered its worst fall in 26 years. For Wall Streeters the weekend announcement could not have come at a worse time, for the first impulse of thousands upon thousands of small stockholders was to sell. As the selling orders poured in by wire on Sunday to brokerage houses, the bearish pressure on the market built up to enormous strength...