Fifty-eight patients with transmural anterior myocardial infarction were prospectively studied with serial two-dimensional echocardiography to determine the clinical implications and prognostic significance of detection of left ventricular thrombus during acute myocardial infarction, the incidence of systemic embolization, and the possible occurrence of spontaneous regression of left ventricula...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the relation between coronary flow reserve (CFR), coronary zero flow pressure (Pzf), and residual myocardial viability in patients with acute myocardial infarction. DESIGNS Prospective study. SETTING Primary care hospital. PATIENTS 27 consecutive patients with acute anterior myocardial infarction. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emissi...

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...

Eleven patients with bifascicular block complicating anteroseptal acute myocardial infarction were studied to determine the effect of prophylactic permanent pacing; eight of them also had transient high grade atrioventricular block during the acute phase of the infarction. One month after the infarction an electrophysiological study was performed and a bradycardia indicating pacemaker implanted...

BACKGROUND Bao-Xin-Tang (BXT) is a traditional Chinese medicinal formula used for the treatment of coronary heart disease and known to have favorable therapeutic benefits. The current study was designed to determine whether BXT has a cardioprotective role for acute myocardial infarction. The underlying mechanisms were also explored. MATERIALS AND METHODS The Sprague-Dawley rat model of acute ...

The purpose of this study was to determine the coronary angiographic correlations (specifically disease of the left anterior descending coronary artery) of reciprocal ST segment depression appearing during inferior acute myocardial infarction. Forty six patients (41 men and five women; mean age 56 years) were allocated into two groups based on the extent of precordial ST segment depression: wid...

OBJECTIVES We sought to study the pathologic implications of restored positive T waves and persistent negative T waves in the chronic stage of Q wave myocardial infarction. BACKGROUND Some inverted T waves (coronary T waves) become positive after acute myocardial infarction; others retain their negative T wave component for a long time. The pathologic implications of the difference between re...

AMA Andelo Borovac J, Miric D, Lozo M, Zanchi Slujo A. The electrocardiographic and angiographic discrepancy in determining culprit coronary artery lesion: anterior ST-T segment changes within the context of inferior wall acute myocardial infarction. Advances Interventional Cardiology/Postępy w Kardiologii Interwencyjnej. 2023;19(3):296-297. doi:10.5114/aic.2023.131487. APA Borovac, J., Miric, ...