BACKGROUND Guidelines are not available for which patients with acute chest pain should be admitted to the coronary care unit and which patients can be reasonably triaged to monitored beds in lower levels of care. METHODS AND RESULTS Clinical and resource utilization data from 12 139 emergency department patients with acute chest pain were used in a decision-analytic model to identify cost-ef...

Introduction:Gated myocardial perfusion SPECT has diagnostic and prognostic values in coronary artery disease (CAD). We tried to determine prognostic values of the left ventricular perfusion & functional indices as well as transient left ventricular dilation (TID) derived from gated myocardial perfusion SPECT. Methods: 1820patients who underwent gated myo...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the feasibility and safety of continuous glucose monitoring systems (CGMS) in ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary interventions (p-PCI) in coronary care units (CCU). METHODS CGMS was performed for 3 days during CCU hospitalization for each of the subjects. The correlation between...

A 53-year-old male with no previous cardiovascular history was transferred from a psychiatric ward for urgent angiography with a diagnosis of acute coronary syndrome (ACS). The prior admission was due to a suicide attempt as a result of bipolar affective disease. The patient had been treated with paroxetine but had discontinued the therapy two months before the suicide attempt. As a result of j...

c-reactive protein (crp) response was studied in 44 patients with acute angina pectoris admitted to the coronary care unit. 71 % of patients with acute myocardial infarction (mi)had positive crp test while 73% of patients presumed to have unstable angina pectoris had negative crp test. this test can be helpful in differentiating between acute mi and unstable angina pectoris.

Background: Patients with right ventricular infarction is a critical condition and may cause adverse cardiac events.
 Objective: The purpose of the present study was to compare in-hospital complications among patients based on TIMI risk score.
 Methodology: This prospective observational conducted in Department Cardiology, National Institute Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD), Dhaka, Ban...

Background: Acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is one of the most serious diseases with high mortality. Concerning influence age and gender on ACS properties, this study aimed to determine age-based differences in risk factors symptoms a sample Iranian patients. Methods: This cross-sectional was conducted 450 patients Kerman from 10 September, 2018 25 February, 2019. The data were collected through ...

P atients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) suffer the paradox of high risk for heart disease and yet reduced use of standard therapies for treatment and prevention of heart disease. The classic example in the literature is the reduced use of standard of care medications after acute myocardial infarction (AMI), now shown in a variety of settings even where the cost of prescription drugs should ...