Texas County Memorial Hospital recently received Level III STEMI designation from the Missouri Department of Health and ...

A 52-year-old man with hypertension and hyperlipidemia experiences chest pain and summons medical help. Thirty minutes later, in the presence of paramedics, he collapses with ventricular fibrillation ...

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 ...

A 50-year-old woman experiences jaw discomfort while at work. It increases in intensity, accompanied by diaphoresis and nausea. An ambulance is called 40 minutes after symptom onset. On arrival to the ...

In patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), early treatment with a pharmacoinvasive strategy is more often associated with aborted infarction than is primary percutaneous ...

Acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction is estimated to occur in more than 500,000 people in the US every year. With the introduction of reperfusion therapy by fibrinolysis or primary ...

AstraZeneca today announced that ticagrelor, an oral antiplatelet medicine, received a Class I recommendation from the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) in the revised “Guidelines on the Management ...

ST-segment elevation on the EKG in COVID-19 patients was especially complex and had poor prognosis in a small case series from New York City hospitals. Confirmed COVID-19 was complicated by ST-segment ...

Because lethal ventricular arrhythmias may develop abruptly in patients with STEMI, the ACC/AHA guidelines suggest all patients be monitored with electrocardiography (ECG) on arrival in the emergency ...