Acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is a serious disease in clinical practice. The rapid and accurate diagnosis of this critical illness can lead to prompt reperfusion, and it enables the reduction of cardiac ischemic damage and results in improved subsequent outcomes. The shorter the time to reperfusion, the greater the benefits. The American College of Cardiology/American...

Background Myocardial oedema is a consequence of injury during ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). T2 weighted short tau inversion recovery (T2w STIR) is widely used for oedema assessment on CMR. No consensus exits for which threshold/ contouring method should be used for the quantification of the area of myocardial oedema as a surrogate endpoint in clinical trials. This study i...

The electrocardiographic (ECG) diagnosis of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) represents a challenge to all health care providers, particularly so for the novice ECG interpreter. We have developed--and present in this article--a 4-step algorithm that will detect STEMI in most instances in the prehospital and other nonemergency department (ED) settings. The algorithm should be u...

Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is the preferred treatment for patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) owing to improved vessel patency, decreased infarct size, lower rates of reinfarction, and improved survival compared with pharmacological reperfusion. However, stent thrombosis (ST) remains a major concern among STEMI patients with an excess 3to 4-fol...

Fro Ba zC OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to compare the 1-year outcome between bioresorbable vascular scaffold (BVS) and everolimus-eluting metallic stent (EES) in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients. BACKGROUND The Absorb BVS (Abbott Vascular, Santa Clara, California) is a polymeric scaffold approved for treatment of stable coronary lesions. Limited and not ra...

ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is the result of the abrupt occlusion of an epicardial coronary artery. Timely performance of primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has become the treatment of choice in affected patients. Mechanical reperfusion with implantation of drug-eluting stents (DES) has been associated with improved safety and efficacy compared with balloon ...

Materials and Methods: The study included 60 patients that had ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). All the patients underwent coronary angiography 1-4 days after admission (mean: 2.3 ± 1.2 days). Patients were graded according to Rentrop classification. Patients with grade 0 or 1 collateral vessels were classified as poor collaterals; patients with grade 2 or 3 collateral vessel...

ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is the result of the abrupt occlusion of an epicardial coronary artery. Timely performance of primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has become the treatment of choice in affected patients. Mechanical reperfusion with implantation of drug-eluting stents (DES) has been associated with improved safety and efficacy compared with balloon ...

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