Myocardial Infarction
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01/20/2024
Troponin T tests are generally performed on patients who have shown signs of myocardial infarction or myocardial injury. Have you ever considered using the test in stable outpatients? Take the poll and let...
01/20/2024
10/31/2023
A 54-year-old man presented to our emergency department with a 2-hour history of shortness of breath and dull left-sided chest pain that radiated to the left shoulder and jaw.
10/31/2023
06/04/2023
A 63-year-old woman presented to the emergency department on March 21, 2020, with a sore throat and headache. She also reported that she had a heart condition.
06/04/2023
Interactive Features
01/20/2024
Troponin T tests are generally performed on patients who have shown signs of myocardial infarction or myocardial injury. Have you ever considered using the test in stable outpatients? Take the poll and let...
01/20/2024
06/04/2023
A 63-year-old woman presented to the emergency department on March 21, 2020, with a sore throat and headache. She also reported that she had a heart condition.
06/04/2023
08/31/2021
Joe is a 53-year-old man with obesity who recently had a heart attack. He is concerned about his risk of having a second heart attack, but when you suggest that he improve his diet, he says, “Isn’t it a...
08/31/2021
12/20/2018
On what day of the year is myocardial infarction risk the highest?
12/20/2018
Clinical Insights
03/08/2022
You may have patients who experience more than 1 social risk factor, and new research shows that these patients are at an increased risk for silent myocardial infarction. Elsayed Z. Soliman, MD, MSc, MS,...
03/08/2022
11/27/2019
She talks about her research that examined the relative strength of associations between region, hospital, and patient characteristics with high-intensity statin use after myocardial infarction.
11/27/2019
11/24/2015
Intracoronary artery infusion of autologous stem cells after primary PCI or thrombolysis for acute myocardial infarction improves left ventricular ejection fraction and left ventricular volumes, according...
11/24/2015
