Late ventricular fibrillation after acute myocardial infarction is associated with a markedly increased risk of 1-year ...

Acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction is estimated to occur in more than 500,000 people in the US every year. With the introduction of reperfusion therapy by fibrinolysis or primary ...

A number of substudies have been published in 2007, including a Focus Issue of JACC highlighting additional findings from ExTRACT-TIMI 25. In ExTRACT-TIMI 25, women presented with a profile of higher ...

A 50-year-old woman experiences jaw discomfort while at work. It increases in intensity, accompanied by diaphoresis and nausea. An ambulance is called 40 minutes after symptom onset. On arrival to the ...

Mrs. C, an 81-year-old woman, arrives at the emergency department of a community hospital 4 hours after the onset of crushing retrosternal chest pain. The pain radiates to her back, shoulders and arms ...

Researchers at University Medical Center Maastricht and international partners report that a single shot of the drug zalunfiban given at first medical contact for suspected ST-elevation myocardial ...

Texas County Memorial Hospital recently received Level III STEMI designation from the Missouri Department of Health and ...

A non-transmural myocardial infarction refers to a myocardial infarction that does not involve the full thickness of the myocardium. It was one believed that the development of Q waves indicated that ...

Because lethal ventricular arrhythmias may develop abruptly in patients with STEMI, the ACC/AHA guidelines suggest all patients be monitored with electrocardiography (ECG) on arrival in the emergency ...