Usage of drug-coated balloon in acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction?!

ST-Segment Elevation in Acute Myocardial Infarction

Four hundred and four patients who were admitted to the hospital with their first myocardial infarction within 24 hours of the onset of symptoms were studied. In 315 patients the ECG findings in 12 standards leads (I, II, aVF, aVR, aVL, V,-V6) showed the infarction to be in the anterior wall, the inferior wall, or in multiple areas. The patients in each of these three categories were further su...

Door-to-balloon time and ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction.

I would like to congratulate the authors for their paper in the mini-focus issue on the ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) (1), for calling attention to the fact that door-toballoon time might not be the best metric to assess successful treatment of STEMI (2). In their State-of-the-Art paper, the authors clearly point out that measuring door-to-balloon time ignores, for the most...

Myocardial Hemorrhage After Acute Reperfused ST-Segment–Elevation Myocardial Infarction

Acute Phase Response: Implication in ST-segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction

We aimed to investigate the relation between serum inflammatory markers, 25OHvit-D3 and oxidative stress markers, namely paraoxonase1-arylesterase (PON1-ARE), total antioxidant status (TAS) and total oxidant status (TOS) in 30 male patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction(STEMI) . There was negative correlation between tumor necrosis factor alpha and ARE; positive correlations between s...

ST-segment elevation in conditions other than acute myocardial infarction.

Early reperfusion therapy has proved beneficial in such infarctions. 2-4 The earlier the reperfusion, the greater the benefit, and the time to treatment is now considered to indicate the quality of care. These days, when thrombolytic treatment and percutaneous intervention are carried out so readily, it is important to remember that acute infarction is not the only cause of ST-segment elevation...