Key points A 56-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a 2-day history of central chest pain and dyspnea. Her medical history included having had a myocardial infarction (MI) with n ...
Nearly half of adults with a first myocardial infarction show low or borderline risk on current risk estimators. Most develop ...
Researchers have uncovered a major blind spot in the way doctors assess future health risk in young adults who suffer a heart ...
Non-ST elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) represents a significant clinical entity within the spectrum of acute ...
Stroke and heart attack are life-threatening conditions that require emergency medical attention, but they differ in the affected organ and symptoms.
The study reveals that widely used heart-attack risk calculators fail to flag nearly half of those who will soon experience a ...
When most people think of a heart attack, they imagine a blocked artery causing sudden, severe symptoms. But for many women, ...
The advent of myocardial metabolic imaging more than 30 years ago ushered in a paradigm shift in the clinical management of patients with ischemic and nonischemic heart disease. A classic example is ...