Myocardial infarction (MI) is defined by the presence of myocardial necrosis in combination with clinical evidence of myocardial ischemia. Cardiac troponins are regulatory proteins within the myocardium that are released into the circulation when damage to the myocyte has occurred. Therefore, serum troponin is an exquisitely sensitive marker of myocardial injury and is necessary for establishin...

conclusions this study confirms that primary pci revascularization is the best treatment for the acute st elevation mi with brilliant acute result and one- year high survival and acceptable cardiac and non-cardiac complications. studying the effects of using des and bms on long term cardiac mortality, morbidity and need to target vessels revascularization (tvr) shows that performing the pci in ...

introduction: acute coronary syndrome (acs) includes st segment elevation myocardial infarction (stemi), non- st segment elevation myocardial infarction (nstemi), and unstable angina. it is among the leading causes of death. registry systems are designed and implemented to collect and analyze the data related to a specific disease. decreasing the burden acs would need some strategies such as de...

BACKGROUND Despite a substantial progress in diagnosis and therapy, acute myocardial infarction (MI) is a major cause of mortality in the general population. A novel insight into the pathophysiology of myocardial infarction obtained by studying gene expression should help to discover novel biomarkers of MI and to suggest novel strategies of therapy. The aim of our study was to establish gene ex...

Although thrombolytic therapy has been a major advance in the treatment of acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (MI), new thrombolytic agents have been unable to improve early reperfusion. Because aspirin has been shown to be a very effective adjunctive agent in patients with acute MI, it has been hypothesized that the use of platelet glycoprotein (GP) IIb/IIIa receptor inhibitors c...

We investigated the relationship between myocardial oedema and recovery of regional myocardial function in patients with acute reperfused myocardial infarction (MI). Early after acute MI, oedema in the peri-infarct zone, as delineated by T2 weighted (T2w) cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging, demonstrated significantly reduced strain as compared to remote myocardium. The recovery of ...

introduction: in cases with potential diagnosis of ischemic chest pain, screening high risk patients for adverse outcomes would be very helpful. the present study was designed aiming to determine the diagnostic accuracy of thrombolysis in myocardial infarction (timi) score in patients with potential diagnosis of ischemic chest pain. method: this diagnostic accuracy study was designed to evaluat...

Background—Acute psychological stress is associated with an abrupt increase in the risk of cardiovascular events. Intense grief in the days after the death of a significant person may trigger the onset of acute myocardial infarction (MI), but this relationship has not been systematically studied. Methods and Results—We conducted a case-crossover analysis of 1985 participants from the multicente...

Background: Cardiac MRIis an important tool in the diagnosis of myocardial infarction (MI), and in differentiating acute from chronic cases. Studying the myocardial viability of infracted myocardium is very important for decision making regarding coronary revascularization. Objective: The aim of this work was to study contrast enhanced MRI criteria of acute, subacute and chronic MI , and to eva...

AIMS Previous studies have shown that prodromal angina (PA) occurs frequently in acute myocardial infarction (MI) patients. However, the potential benefits of PA on ischaemic myocardial damage remain unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS One-hundred and fifty-four patients with acute ST-segment elevation MI successfully treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI) were prospectively ...