Background Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has significantly improved outcomes for ST-segment elevation ...

Background Guidelines strongly recommend reperfusion therapy, including thrombolysis and percutaneous coronary intervention, ...

Zalunfiban, a glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor specifically formulated for rapid subcutaneous administration, has been ...

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 ...

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The main finding of our study is that STEMI patients with MVD benefited from non-IRA PCI during the index hospitalization in terms of a lower rate of rehospitalization due to both cardiac and ...

NEW ORLEANS -- Patients experiencing major heart attacks had a lower risk of serious complications if they received a single ...

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 ...

A 65-year-old man with a history of surgically treated pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma presented to a cardiology department with severe retrosternal chest pain lasting for 2 hours. The day before, he ...

There are no firm data to help define an optimal management strategy for preventing recurrent VF in patients who have sustained an initial episode of VF in the setting of STEMI. The guidelines ...