THIS is a study of 258 hospitalized diabetic patients who sustained acute myocardial infarction. The data deal with the immediate mortality of the acute attack and the five-year survival among those ...
BACKGROUND: The optimal transfusion strategy in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and anemia may be influenced by sex differences in pathophysiology and cardiovascular outcomes. The ...
Despite the high rate of sudden death after myocardial infarction among patients with a low ejection fraction, implantable cardioverter–defibrillators are contraindicated until 40 to 90 days after ...
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 ...
Patients born with heart defects experience their first acute heart attack at a significantly earlier age than others. This ...
Prehospital pulse-dose glucocorticoid treatment in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) does not reduce the final infarct size at 3 months but may improve acute outcomes ...
Myocardial infarction (MI) causes millions of deaths worldwide. Though there have been advances in the survival rates following ST-elevation MI (STEMI), survivors often develop heart failure due to ...
Background A 53-year-old man presented to hospital 2 hours after the abrupt onset of left upper abdominal pain. He was treated with analgesics and discharged after 4 hours of observation, but ...
Given the size of the stroke depicted in Figure 1 (greater than one third of the hemisphere), thrombolytic therapy would be contraindicated for this patient. Indications of a hemorrhagic stroke ...
Stroke, myocardial infarction and other cardiovascular events are more common in neovascular glaucoma, potentially pointing ...