MyocardialInfarction

A review of the EKG findings in MIs, including their morphological classification, a determination of their age, and localization to region of the heart and ...  

A review of the EKG findings in MIs, including their morphological classification, a determination of their age, and localization to region of the heart and ...  

A review of the EKG findings in MIs, including their morphological classification, a determination of their age, and localization to region of the heart and ...  

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) offers women no protection against having or dying from a myocardial infarction while increasing the risk of blood clots and stroke, a new analysis published by the Cochrane Collaboration has shown.1  

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) more than double the risk of bleeding and also increase the risk of cardiovascular events among patients taking antithrombotic drugs after a myocardial infarction, even after short term treatment with NSAIDs, show results from a Danish study reported in JAMA.1  

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) offers women no protection against having or dying from a myocardial infarction while increasing the risk of blood clots and stroke, a new analysis published by the Cochrane Collaboration has shown.1  

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) more than double the risk of bleeding and also increase the risk of cardiovascular events among patients taking antithrombotic drugs after a myocardial infarction, even after short term treatment with NSAIDs, show results from a Danish study reported in JAMA.1  

Objective To characterize the absolute risks for older patients of readmission to hospital and death in the year after hospitalization for heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, or pneumonia.  

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) more than double the risk of bleeding and also increase the risk of cardiovascular events among patients taking antithrombotic drugs after a myocardial infarction, even after short term treatment with NSAIDs, show results from a Danish study reported in JAMA.1  

Why do diabetics get silent myocardial infarctions? I assume this is essentially a neuropathy around the pericardium but would the patient normally also have associated neuropathy in their lower limbs etc?  

Testing blood for high sensitivity cardiac troponin T when patients with suspected myocardial infarction (MI) arrive at hospital and monitoring any changes over the first hour can accurately detect who has had a heart attack and who has not, a multicentre European study has found, which could accelerate decisions on management.  

emDocs post containing very useful emergency medicine information  

When an atheromatous plaque ruptures in a coronary vessel and the clot which forms completely obliterates the vascular lumen, the entire thickness of the myocardial wall supplied by that vessel becomes ischaemic and is at risk of infarction. This process evolves over a series of hours and is associated with characteristic ECG changes at different time-points during its evolution. In this video we discuss the recognition of and mechanisms underlying the ECG changes of ST-elevation MI (STEMI).  

By Larry Husten Edited by David G. Fairchild, MD, MPH, and Lorenzo Di Francesco, MD, FACP, FHM After a divorce, people have an increased lifetime risk for  

Reduction of 20% in myocardial infarction risk; randomized trials are now warranted.  

Multi-society consensus statement also calls for national registries.