Persons 75 years of age or older constitute 6.1% of the US population but account for 36% of acute myocardial infarctions (MI) and 60% of deaths. Unfortunately, despite the fact that patients over ...

Acute myocardial infarction, commonly referred to as a heart attack, happens when the heart muscle's blood supply is suddenly interrupted, resulting in tissue damage. This is usually the result of ...

Identifying an acute myocardial infarction on the 12-lead ECG is the most important thing you can learn in ECG interpretation. Time is muscle when treating heart attacks. Missing a ST segment ...

The largest trial to examine the impact of colchicine in acute myocardial infarction (MI) found that both acute and long-term ...

Mean age was similar between the two patient populations, but more men were admitted with acute myocardial infarction in Canada. Canadian patients were hospitalized for a mean of 1.2 days longer ...

Choi Byung-hak, a voice actor and actor famous for dramas such as 'The Third Republic', has passed away. According to his ...

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 ...

A new study published in the European Heart Journal has found that patients who have experienced a heart attack (myocardial ...

Risk of long-term mortality is independently associated with eosinophil counts 5 to 7 days after onset in patients with acute myocardial infarction.