BACKGROUND Systolic compression of a coronary artery by overlying myocardial tissue is termed myocardial bridging. Myocardial bridging usually has a benign prognosis, but some cases resulting in myocardial ischemia, infarction and sudden cardiac death have been reported. We are reporting a case of myocardial bridging which was complicated with acute myocardial infarction associated with inappro...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Acute myocardial infarction is responsible for most of the deaths in developed countries and for a very large number of hospital admissions. Specifically in Spain, each year about 140,000 deaths and 5 million hospital stays are due to acute myocardial infarction, corresponding to health care costs reaching 15% of total expenditure. Therefore, this paper presents an e...

BACKGROUND Diabetes is a major cause of heart disease. Death rate for heart disease is about 2-4 times higher among adults with diabetes then among those without diabetes. In setting of acute Myocardial infarction hyperglycemia is associated with adverse out come even after numerous "cardiac" variable linked to the outcome are adjusted. Elevated plasma glucose at admission is predictor of long ...

BACKGROUND Left ventricular free wall rupture occurs in up to 10% of the in-hospital deaths following myocardial infarction. It is mainly associated with posterolateral myocardial infarction and its antemortem diagnosis is rarely made. Contrast echocardiography has been increasingly used for the evaluation of myocardial perfusion in patients with acute myocardial infarction, with important prog...

Although atrial fibrillation is the most frequent cause of embolic stroke, coronary embolism from atrial fibrillation is a very rare cause of acute myocardial infarction. Therefore, simultaneously presented acute ischemic stroke and acute myocardial infarction due to atrial fibrillation in the same patient has not been documented. The present report describes the case of a 58-year-old man with ...

background: due to the positive relation between platelet size and platelet reactivity, a high value of the mean platelet volume (mpv) is an independent risk factor to predict acute myocardial infarction (ami) and its adverse outcome. few data are available to determinate the prognostic value of mpv in st-elevation myocardial infarction (stemi) patients treated with percutaneous coronary interv...