Table 1. Pre- and comorbidity at onset, complications during the course and volume of infarction.

Patient	Pre- and co morbidity at onset	Complications and time from onset	Lesion volume (cm3)
1	Healthy	Fever (24 h), pneumonia (48 h)	340
2	Ankylosing spondylitis, mechanical aorta valve 12 years previously	Pacemaker (5 and 10 days)	61
3	Diverticulitis, stable last year before onset	GI-bleedings (13 days, 2, 5 and 5 months, 1 year)	5
4	Aortocoronary bypass 13 years previously, cholelithiasis, stable	Urinary infection (7 days), pneumonia (14 days, 2 months)	150
5	Osteoporosis, probable TIA several years previously	None	18
6	Ischaemic stroke 9 years previously, post-infarction epilepsy, stable	None	34
7	Healthy	Fever (48 h), urinary infection (72 h)	45
8	Hypertension, myocardial infarction 7 and 3 years previously,TIA 2 years before onset	Urinary infection (12 h)	1
9	Hypertension, kidney damage with high creatinine,myocardial infarction 5 years before onset	Pneumonia (48 h), post-infarction epilepsy (9 months)	59
10	Healthy	None	1
11	Mechanical heart-valve 11 years previously, osteoporosis	Fracture and infection (4 h, 20 days), urinary infection  (19 days)	64