Technetium-99m stannous pyrophosphate was utilized for myocardial imaging in 202 patients admitted to the hospital with chest pain of uncertain etiology. One hundred and one patients had clinical and evolved electrocardiographic and enzymatic evidence of acute myocardial infarction. Ninety-six of these 101 patients had increased myocardial uptake of the technetium stannous pyrophosphate and pos...

DTIRING THE PAST 12 years or so we have all been performing large numbers of enzyme tests and the present occasion seems appropriate for an attempt to assess the status of enzyme tests in diagnosis. On occasion most of US have obtained results which did not quite fit the clinical diagnosis and in some cases an explanation for the anomalous results can be postulated. In others the puzzle remains...

Thirty consecutive patients underwent technetium-99m stannous pyrophosphate myocardial scintigraphy 48-72 hours after successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation and direct current cardioversion. Five patients with transmural myocardial infarctions by ECG and enzyme determinations were correctly identified by scintigraphy. Myocardial scans were positive in five of nine patients with nontransmural ...

Thrombotic disorders, such as myocardial infarction, ischemic stroke, peripheral arterial disease, deep venous thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, or other embolic diseases that are responsible for worldwide mortality and morbidity, are manifestations of the formed thrombi by blood clots during a pathologic blood coagulation process. Once thrombi are formed, the only way to resolve the blood clot i...

The serial measurement of postoperative serum enzymes has been proposed as an important method for identifying myocardial infarction following aortocoronary graft surgery. Serum glutamic oxalacetic transaminase, creatine phosphokinase and lactic dehydrogenase levels were determined during the initial five days following direct coronary artery surgery in 112 patients. Enzyme test results were an...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), has rapidly become a global health emergency. In addition to causing effects, SARS-CoV-2 can result in cardiac involvement leading myocardial damage, which is increasingly being explored the literature. Myocardial injury an important pathogenic feature of COVID-19. The angiotensin-conver...

Thirty consecutive patients underwent technetium-99m stannous pyrophosphate myocardial scintigraphy 48--72 hours after successful cardiopulmonary resuscitation and direct current cardioversion. Five patients with transmural myocardial infarctions by ECG and enzyme determinations were correctly identified by scintigraphy. Myocardial scans were positive in five of nine patients with nontransmural...