(UPDATED) Patients presenting with non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction treated early with PCI have a lower risk of rehospitalization and death at 30 days compared with patients treated in the ...
Some clinicians say that testing for occlusion myocardial infarction (OMI) instead might be a better tool for making that determination. “We think we should get rid of the term ST-elevation MI, ...
A woman in her early 40s presented with an acute anterior ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction and new-onset atrial fibrillation (AF), 4 weeks after surgical resection of an incidental, ...
In a recent study published in Scientific Reports, researchers from Korea explored the association between prolonged exposure to air pollution (AP) and ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and ...
WASHINGTON, DC – OCTOBER 29, 2024 – The largest trial to examine the impact of colchicine in acute myocardial infarction (MI) found that both acute and long-term colchicine use did not reduce ...
New challenges can lead to new rules, or at least new protocols based on the best available data. The president of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) recently ...
Myocardial ischemia is a drop in blood flow to the heart. Myocardial infarction, or heart attack, occurs when death or damage occurs in the muscle tissue of the heart due to low blood supply. The ...