Type 1 diabetes confers a cardiovascular burden that is often obscured by the young age of affected individuals and by the ...

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, ...

The elderly account for the majority of medical spending in many countries, raising concerns about potentially unnecessary spending, especially during the final months of life. Using a well-defined ...

A septal infarct is an area of dead tissue in the septum of the heart, which is a wall of tissue dividing the two sides of the heart. It happens when there is a blockage or reduction in its blood ...

Prior stroke and neurological disability increased long-term mortality after myocardial infarction. Learn how neurological status may guide risk assessment.

The comparative efficacy of various anticoagulation strategies has not been clearly established in patients with acute myocardial infarction who are undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) ...

A pioneering study by researchers from Finland and the UK has demonstrated for the first time that myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease. This discovery challenges the conventional ...

We hypothesized that percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) preceded by early treatment with abciximab plus half-dose reteplase (combination-facilitated PCI) or with abciximab alone ...

Myocardial infarction (MI) – more regularly known as a heart attack – is an acute phenomenon initiated by the interruption of blood supply to regions of the heart, causing myocardial necrosis.

If the finding on an ECG is “septal infarct, age undetermined,” it means that the patient possibly had a heart attack at an undetermined time in the past. Septal infarct is a patch of dead, dying, or ...