BACKGROUND The acute coronary syndrome diagnosis includes different classifications of myocardial infarction, which have been shown to differ in their pathology, as well as their early and late prognosis. These differences may relate to the underlying extent of infarction and/or residual myocardial ischemia. The study aim was to compare scar and ischemia mass between acute non-ST elevation myoc...

BACKGROUND Post hoc analyses from several randomized, controlled trials have established the prognostic importance of different measures of ST-segment recovery in highly selected patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). In this single-center registry, we investigated whether various measures of ST-segment recove...

Primary percutaneous coronary intervention in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction Early reperfusion of an infarct-related artery in acute STEMI improves survival. Primary PCI is the preferred reperfusion strategy in STEMI if it can be performed rapidly and by experienced operators [1,2]. In an ideal world, all patients with STEMI would be offered immediate primary PCI given its superiori...

Background Acute Inferior ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction (Ac-Inf-STEMI) and associated posterior and right ventricular (RV) infarction has been extensively studied with electrophysiology and echocardiography. A recent CMR study showed that poor RV function was associated with poor long term survival post myocardial infarction. However, limited CMR data exists especially on short term clinic...

Objective: To study the electrocardiogram (ECG) features that predict 30-day mortality of ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction (STEMI) in Chinese patients. Method: This was a retrospective study. Patients presenting within twelve hours after the onset of chest pain with ECG features compatible with STEMI and the diagnosis confirmed after admission were included in the study. Data ta...

The article presents the features of morphologic structure intracoronary thrombi and prognosis acute ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) in patients different age groups.
 Methods: Histological analysis aspirated clots was performed 97 with STEMI. were divided into two groups: 11 aged under 44 (young group) remaining older than 45 (older group). short-term determined by: ST-...

Background In reperfused ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), CMR late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) is the gold-standard for quantifying myocardial infarct (MI) size. Serum cardiac biomarker area-under-the-curve (AUC) is also used (CK-MB, Troponin T and I) and is more widely available than CMR. However, whether acute MI size measured by the 5 generation high-sensitivity Troponin ...

As a result of increased life expectancy, octogenarians constitute an increasing proportion of patients admitted to hospital for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Primary percutaneous coronary intervention is currently the treatment of choice for octogenarians presenting with STEMI. The recent literature on this topic has yielded controversial results, even though advances in ...