Introductory Note to a Classic Article by Dr. Fred M. Smith

摘要

This issue of includes a special article by Dr. Antonio Bayes de Luna entitled “Evolving Myocardial Infarction with ST Elevation” and an Editorial on the renaissance in electrocardiography. Dr. Bayes de Luna provides precise correlations between the site of coronary occlusion and injured segments in the heart. It is always interesting to go back to the first descriptions of electrocardiographic changes in acute myocardial infarction.