OBJECTIVE Anemia is associated with high mortality and poor prognosis after acute coronary syndrome (ACS). Increased red cell distribution width (RDW) is a strong independent predictor for adverse outcomes in ACS. The common underlying mechanism for anemia and increased RDW value is iron deficiency. It is not clear whether serum iron deficiency without anemia affects left ventricular (LV) perfo...

BACKGROUND Recently there have been efforts to derive safe, efficient processes to rule out acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in emergency department (ED) chest pain patients. We aimed to prospectively validate an ACS assessment pathway (the 2-Hour Accelerated Diagnostic Protocol to Assess Patients with Chest Pain Symptoms Using Contemporary Troponins as the Only Biomarker (ADAPT) pathway) under pr...

INTRODUCTION Visceral fat has deleterious metabolic effects and has been associated with myocardial ischemia. OBJECTIVE To compare epicardial fat thickness in diabetic versus non-diabetic patients with acute myocardial infarction with ST-segment elevation. MATERIAL AND METHODS We performed a cross-sectional study in 60 patients with acute myocardial infarction with ST-segment elevation (30 ...

BACKGROUND Comparisons between dedicated risk scores in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (pPCI) in real-world clinical practice are scarce. The aim of this study was to assess the diagnostic performance of the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE), Primary Angioplasty in Myocardial Infarction (PAMI)...

Objective: To investigate the in-hospital mortality rate of STEMI patients treated with IABP according to different TIMI risk scores (TRS). Methods: The clinical data of 897 consecutive ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients, without mechanical complications, from July 2005 to July 2013, were retrospectively analysed. The in-hospital outcomes were compared for the 293 patie...