AIMS We prospectively studied the additive value of N-terminal probrain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) in relation to the Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) risk score and the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) joint prognostic classification, and compared the predictive capacity of NT-proBNP, troponin T (TnT), C-reactive protein (hsCRP), myoglobin, a...

BACKGROUND The objectives of the present investigation were to validate the prognostic role of a proposed Clinical Classification [CC], to evaluate the TIMI risk score [RS] and to establish whether the TIMI-RS should incorporate points for patients with acute right ventricular infarction [TIMI-RS-RVI]. METHODS AND RESULTS A total of 523 RVI patients were classified on clinical and functional ...

The approach to risk stratification has evolved during the past 2 decades from a practice that once involved an evaluation for residual ischemia and for left ventricular dysfunction after myocardial infarction (MI). However, risk stratification has now evolved more to include assessment of the risk of future cardiac events, which can be predicted on the basis of clinical features at the time of...

Background Infarct size, microvascular obstruction (MO) and the myocardial salvage index (MSI) assessed by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) have been shown to be associated with adverse clinical outcome. However, in daily clinical routine prognosis after STEMI is evaluated using simple assessable parameters such as ST-segment resolution, enzymatic infarct size, preand post-PCI TIMI-flow...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Although the combined end point of partial and complete recanalization is a well-established predictor of good outcome following acute stroke intervention, few investigations have evaluated the effect of the degree of recanalization. We hypothesized that greater degrees of recanalization would be associated with a higher likelihood of favorable functional outcomes. MATE...