Patient Delay before Treatment of Myocardial Infarction

Patient delay before treatment of myocardial infarction.

Fifty patients in hospital with a definite recent myocardial infarction were interviewed, particular attention being paid to the delay before medical attention was sought. No evidence was found to associate delay with age, sex, or social class. The delay was longer outside normal working hours, and in some patients this seemed to be due to inhibition from disturbing their general practitioner. ...

Life before Myocardial Infarction

The health burden of myocardial infarction is rising for middle-aged women and they are underrepresented in research of cardiovascular diseases. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore how life had been for middle-aged women before they suffered a myocardial infarction (MI). Through a health care register, we identified all women (n = 46) under 65 years of age in a defined region in so...

Myocardial damage of the entire ventricular region in a patient with acute myocardial infarction

Technetium-99m-pyrophosphate (99mTc-PYP) has been used, in combination with thallium-201, to estimate the site and extent of myocardial infarcts. We report a case of acute myocardial infarction with severe coronary disease in which the distribution of 99mTc-PYP was extensive. A 78-year-old man presented with dyspnea, and a diagnosis of non-ST-segment elevation acute myocar...

Pre-hospital Delay in Treatment after Acute Myocardial Infarction

1. Full-time Lecturer at Ewha Women’s University Corresponding author: Kyungeh An, PhD, RN, Ewha Women’s University, College of Nursing, 11-1 Daehyun-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-750, Korea Tel: 822-3277-3926 Fax: 822-3277-2875 E-mail: [email protected] This study was supported by the Inje University Research Grant for New Faculty. Received April 10, 2001 ; Accepted November 26, 2001 Significanc...

Treatment delay in myocardial infarction: a timely topic.