Among patients with anterior ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), elevated white blood cell (WBC) count at baseline is a powerful independent predictor of infarct size as measured by ...

THE electrocardiographic findings resulting from infarction of the interventricular septum were recently described by Roesler and Dressler.‡ These investigators found that when the septum was involved ...

TherOx has received premarket approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for SuperSaturated Oxygen (SSO 2) Therapy for use in patients who suffer left anterior descending (LAD) ST-elevation ...

The outcome of patients admitted to a coronary care unit with acute MI has greatly improved since the introduction in clinical practice of therapeutic agents proved to be beneficial in large-scale ...

Current guidelines for the treatment of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction recommend a door-to-balloon time of 90 minutes or less for patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary ...

Technically, the diagnosis of an anterior myocardial infarction on an ECG has never been validated in the setting of a paced rhythm, however that was the case in this ECG. There was acute occlusion of ...

Previous studies suggest that the proportion of ischemic risk zone that becomes necrotic following myocardial infarction (MI) is directly correlated with temperature. According to Hale and Kloner, [1] ...

Figure 1: Activated Hippo signalling in human heart failure. Figure 4: Park2 in heart failure and Salv gene therapy. To achieve recombination of floxed alleles in the adult mice, tamoxifen dissolved ...

AWANS, Belgium--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Miracor Medical SA (Miracor Medical) has announced the award of the CE Mark for its latest generation of PiCSO Impulse Catheter and PiCSO Impulse Console, which is ...