Just one in three North American patients admitted to the cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) for STEMI complicated by cardiogenic shock (STEMI-CS) would meet the high bar set for entry into the DanGer ...

Cutting edge imaging, rapid PCI protocols, and patient centered follow up improving outcomes for acute coronary syndromes.

April 22, 2009 (Los Angeles, California) — More evidence that a coordinated regional approach to the treatment of STEMI patients, with prehospital triage and cath-lab activation, leads to a consistent ...

Hospitals that apply a comprehensive protocol when providing STEMI care stand to improve key process metrics for patients irrespective of their race, data from the Cleveland Clinic suggest. In the ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — Smoking seems to play a bigger role in acute ST-segment-elevation MI (STEMI) in patients younger than 35 years compared with older age groups. A study based on Michigan data suggests ...

The benefits of complete revascularization over culprit-only coronary artery revascularisation were confirmed in older patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and multivessel ...

For patients with COVID-19 and STEMI, percutaneous coronary intervention remains the treatment of choice. For patients with COVID-19 and NSTEMI, conservative therapy is reasonable in hemodynamically ...

Announcing a new article publication for Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications journal. Age-related vulnerable characteristics of pancoronary plaques in patients with ST-segment elevation ...

Operators safely shaved a few minutes off heart attack reperfusion times by taking patients straight to culprit lesion percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) when they arrived at the catheterization ...

The current door-to-balloon time guideline for ST-elevation myocardial infarction patients from the American Heart Association is 90 minutes or less. Many hospitals around the country have taken steps ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Long-term follow-up from DANAMI-3-PRIMULTI shows reduction in events after complete revascularization vs.

While acute myocardial infarction—commonly referred to as a heart attack—remains a leading cause of death in the United States, deaths have decreased significantly over the past two decades in part ...