background: acute myocardial infarction (ami) is one of the most common causes of morbidity and mortality. considering immense socioeconomic damages of growing ami in developing countries we estimated prognostic value of major risk factors of ami to predict probable in-hospital ami mortality. methods: in a cohort survey from june 2004 to march 2006, 1798 patients hospitalized with proven ami en...

conclusions lithium intoxication should be considered in the differential diagnosis, especially in elderly patients on lithium therapy who are admitted to the emergency department with chest pain. case presentation a 62-year-old woman was admitted to the emergency department due to weakness and acute chest pain. her ecg revealed st elevation in leads di, avl and v5-6, with a ventricular rate of...

introduction: to investigate 28 days survival rate following first acute myocardial infarction (ami) associated with the presence of classical risk factors and treatment modalities in gorgan, north of iran. materials and methods: our cohort including all patients hospitalized due to ami from 2010 to 2013. data were collected on demographic, prophylactic drugs and classical coronary risk factors...

this study sought to compare the clinical features and outcome of a first acute myocardial infarction (ami) with onset of symptoms during or within 30 minutes of exercise, at rest and in bed. information collected using a standard questionnaire was used to relate activity at the onset of symptoms and in-hospital outcome in 500 consecutive patients admitted to our heart center with a first ami b...

background and objectives: gingival and periodontal diseases are associated with specific bacterial infections. the main aim of the study was to know whether the periodontitis is associated with an increased risk for acute myocardial infarction (ami) and to know the distribution of porphyromonas gingivalis in patients with acute myocardial infarction associated with chronic periodontitis and ac...

to evaluate the prognostic significance of clinicopathological measurement in the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (mi) in sheep, acute mi was induced by ligation of left anterior descending coronary artery (lad). for this purpose, twenty four healthy sheep were divided into the sham-operated or control group (group i, thoracotomy without mi) and the experimental group (group ii, with m...