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

Objective: To illustrate the significance of vertebral body infarction as the only confirmatory sign of spinal cord ischemic stroke. Setting: Department of Neurology, St. Josef-Hospital, Bochum, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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) ...

We have previously demonstrated an association between combination antiretroviral therapy and the risk of myocardial infarction. It is not clear whether this association differs according to the class ...

"Cardiovascular disease is the main cause of death in women, killing seven times more than breast cancer, notes Manzo-Silberman. The hospital death rate is significantly higher in women and, despite ...

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.

The authors collected resource utilization and cost of treatment data (in US dollars, excluding physicians' fees) from the cost accounting systems of two Canadian hospitals (n=215) and seven US ...

Credit: Getty Images A discussion of the use of beta-blocker therapy following AMI, with Christopher Granger, MD, Gregg Fonarow, MD, and Carlin S Long, MD. Beta blockers have long been included in the ...

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 ...