Circulation

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Patients with ST-segment–elevation myocardial infarction undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention were randomly assigned by center to receive low-dose PPA or matching placebo for at least 48 hours. Circulation, Ahead of Print. mg·kg·h of bivalirudin intravenously). mg·kg·h of bivalirudin intravenously). to 1.57]).

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

MARCH 3, 2024

Background Early ventricular tachycardia/fibrillation (VT/VF) in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) has higher morbidity and mortality. Methods We analyzed data from 2,964 consecutive STEMI patients between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2021.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

AUGUST 8, 2024

The emergency department of Liaocheng People's Hospital in Shandong Province admitted one patient with OHCA in August 2021, who suddenly suffered a loss of consciousness and cardiac arrest during exercise after dinner.

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Cardiovascular Diabetology

AUGUST 6, 2024

Research design and methods All patients with diabetes and CAD undergoing a coronary angiography between 2010 and 2021 according to the Swedish Angiography and Angioplasty Registry were included. Results Among all patients (n = 38,671), 31% had stable CAD, and 69% suffered an acute myocardial infarction.

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Coronary Artery Disease Journal

APRIL 24, 2024

Purpose Construction of a prediction model to predict the risk of major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in the long term after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).

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Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Objectives:The aim of this study was to assess the risk of stroke for temporary mechanical circulatory support (tMCS) device treated acute myocardial infarction (AMI).Background:Data Background:Data are limited regarding risk of stroke for temporary mechanical circulatory support (tMCS) device treated acute myocardial infarction (AMI).Methods:The

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

MAY 27, 2024

Curr Cardiol Red 2021 3. ST depression in lead AVL differentiates inferior ST-elevation myocardial infarction from pericarditis. Ischemic ST-segment depression maximal in V1-4 (versus V5-6) of any amplitude is specific for occlusion myocardial infarction (versus nonocclusive ischemia). J Am Heart Assoc 2021 6.

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Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The outcome measure was peri-procedural complications defined as a composite of perioperative death, major bleeding, contrast nephropathy, myocardial infarction, ischemic stroke, and major amputation. Procedure time was categorized into four clinically relevant groups (≤59, 60–119, 120–179, and ≥180 minutes).

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Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

to 10% of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI), no-reflow is a complication associated with poor outcomes like myocardial infarction extension and death. Circulation, Volume 150, Issue Suppl_1 , Page A4139207-A4139207, November 12, 2024. Background:Occurring in 0.6%

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Cardiology Update

MAY 14, 2024

The RENOVATE-COMPLEX-PCI trial demonstrated the superiority of IVI-guided PCI over angiography-guided PCI in patients undergoing complex procedures, showing significant reductions in cardiac death, target vessel-related myocardial infarction (MI), and target vessel revascularization. vs 6.7%; HR: 0.77; 95% CI: 0.61-0.97;

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DAIC

MAY 8, 2024

2021 AHA/ACC/ASE/Chest/Saem/SCCT/SCMR guideline for the evaluation and diagnosis of chest pain: A report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines.” 2021, [link]. For more information: www.heartflow.com References 1 Krievins, Dainis K., JAMA Internal Medicine, vol.

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Open Heart

AUGUST 25, 2024

Methods We prospectively included 1384 patients with LRHSs between March 2019 and March 2021. All the patients underwent NISI (involving myocardial perfusion imaging/stress echocardiography). The primary endpoints included cardiac death, non-fatal myocardial infarction and unplanned coronary revascularisation.

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Open Heart

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Methods and results Data for all patients admitted to hospital care for acute coronary syndromes in Slovenia (nationwide cohort) between 2014 and 2021 were obtained by merging the national hospital database, national medicines reimbursement database and population mortality registry using unique identifying numbers.

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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

We assessed clinical outcomes, including major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE), target lesion revascularization (TLR), target vessel myocardial infarction (TV-MI) and cardiovascular death. Angiograms and outcomes were independently adjudicated.

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All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

MAY 23, 2024

They were using data from the UK Biobank participants dated 2006 to 2010 and follow UP till the end of March 2021. But potential beneficial association was noted between regular use of fish oil supplements and transitions from atrial fibrillation to myocardial infarction, atrial fibrillation to death and heart failure to death.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

MAY 8, 2023

Diagnosis of Acute Myocardial Infarction in the Presence of Left Bundle Branch Block using the ST Elevation to S-Wave Ratio in a Modified Sgarbossa Rule. Electrocardiographic Diagnosis of Acute Coronary Occlusion Myocardial Infarction in Ventricular Paced Rhythm Using the Modified Sgarbossa Criteria.

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Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Post-PCI bleeding risk was compared before and after campaign participation. Campaign hospitals had a greater decrease in bleeding events than noncampaign hospitals.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

APRIL 5, 2024

2021 Oct 19;10(20):e021356. 2 Trends and Predictors of Participation in Cardiac Rehabilitation Following Acute Myocardial Infarction: Data From the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. 7 Secondary prevention following myocardial infarction: a clinical update. 2021 May 1;397(10285):1625-1636.

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DAIC

MARCH 21, 2024

with SmartAssist ; Impella LD Product Codes: See Recall Database Entry Distribution Dates: October 10, 2021 to October 10, 2023 Devices Recalled in the U.S.: Recalled Product US Available Product Names: Impella 2.5; Impella CP; Impella CP with SmartAssist; Impella 5.0;

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DAIC

DECEMBER 14, 2023

All people who tested positive for the virus in Sweden from the start of the pandemic until May 2021 were included, but also a comparison group of individuals without a positive test for the virus. Researchers at Umeå University have previously shown that COVID-19 leads to an increased risk of blood clots, myocardial infarction and stroke.

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All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Sometimes arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy patients can present with acute chest pain and elevation of myocardial enzymes and has been called as ‘hot phase’ These require differentiation from acute myocardial infarction and have normal coronary arteries [3]. 2021 Jun 7;23(6):907-917.

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Open Heart

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Methods A multicentre cross-sectional epidemiological study to estimate the prevalence of elevated Lp(a) in patients with a history of myocardial infarction, ischaemic stroke or peripheral artery disease conducted at 949 sites in 48 countries in North America, Europe, Asia, South America, South Africa and Australia between April 2019 and July 2021.

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Open Heart

JUNE 24, 2022

Introduction COVID-19 may lead to long-term endothelial consequences including hypertension, stroke and myocardial infarction. Cases will be patients who were admitted to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (QEUH), Glasgow, UK, with suspected/confirmed COVID-19 until 31 December 2021 and who were alive at discharge.

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Stroke Journal

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Objective:To compare the 1-month stroke, myocardial infarction (MI), and/or death rates among symptomatic patients undergoing either CAS or CEA according to the timing of the procedure in Carotid Revascularization Endarterectomy versus Stenting Trial (CREST).Methods:We Stroke, Volume 55, Issue Suppl_1 , Page A48-A48, February 1, 2024.

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EMS 12-Lead

APRIL 8, 2022

The peak Troponin I confirmed myocardial infarction. (A Posterior myocardial infarction: The dark side of the moon. The delayed action wave in non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction. The EMS crews were correct moving forward with STEMI activation. 1] Driver, B. Emergency Medicine Journal, 1-5. [2]

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

associated typical Myocardial Infarction therapies such as statins and ACE inhibitors with significantly decreased 1 year mortality in MINOCA patients, which suggests that they do indeed have a similar pathophysiology to MI patients with obstructive coronary disease. MINOCA I do not have the bandwidth here to write a review of MINOCA.

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Circulation

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

There is limited understanding of race differences in the management and outcomes of CS.Methods:We queried the US National Inpatient Sample database (years 2016-2021) for CS hospitalizations in adults and categorized them by presence of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) on admission.

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All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

MARCH 7, 2024

Primary endpoint of the study was a composite of myocardial infarction, stroke, or death from any cause in those who had micro and nanoplastics in the carotid plaque. 2021 Feb 12;371(6530):672-674. Inflammatory biomarkers were also estimated. Comparison was with those who had no evidence of these plastics in the plaques.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

JANUARY 3, 2022

Prospective validation of current quantitative electrocardiographic criteria for ST-elevation myocardial infarction. V5-V6) of any amplitude, is specific for Occlusion Myocardial Infarction (vs. non-occlusive ischemia) JAHA 2021 3. -- Meyers HP, Bracey A, Lee D, et al. J of Emerg Med 2021.

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Cardiometabolic Health Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In 2021 alone, CVD accounted for over 900,000 deaths in the U.S. In 2021, approximately 57.8 A 2021 cohort study of 118, 706 participants with no prior CVD, evaluated the association between psychological stress and the development of CVD and mortality. and approximately 19.91 million globally.

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Dr. Paddy Barrett

JANUARY 30, 2024

2021 Sep 15;339:219-224. MI = Myocardial Infarction/Heart Attack However, there are two very important caveats. 2023, 2 Coronary CT Angiography and 5-Year Risk of Myocardial Infarction. It tells you ‘ if ’ there is plaque and how much, as a score called a CAC score. Int J Cardiol. So a very low chance.

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Cardiomatics

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Moreover, the improvement of care for patients with myocardial infarction has resulted in higher survival rates, but as a result, more patients suffer from heart failure. Corrigendum to: 2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure. 2021, 42, 3599–3726. [3] 2021, 344, 120–126. [4]

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Accuracy of OMI findings versus STEMI criteria for diagnosis of acute coronary occlusion myocardial infarction. Int J Cardiol Heart Vasc 2021 2. DIagnostic accuracy oF electrocardiogram for acute coronary OCClusion resulTing in myocardial infarction (DIFOCCULT study). Aslanger et al. Lemkes et al. Bergmark et al.

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DAIC

MARCH 28, 2024

Primary adverse events were defined as myocardial infarction, thromboembolism, transient ischemic attack, diaphragmatic paralysis, pneumothorax, heart block, pulmonary edema, vagal nerve injury, pericarditis, major vascular access complication or bleeding, death, stroke, or any other cerebrovascular accident. .; February 2-4; Boston.

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Although not striking, this is clearly a diagnostic ECG for infero"posterior" myocardial infarction due to coronary occlusion (OMI), most likely due to left circumflex (LCx) artery occlusion. mm STE even in the fourth universal definition of myocardial infarction. 2021 Dec 7;10(23):e022866. Epub 2021 Nov 15.

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DAIC

JUNE 19, 2024

A burgeoning group of vendor-neutral, software-only AI-ECG platform companies has also emerged, including Cardiologs (acquired by Philips in 2021), Cardiomatics (Poland), and Accurkardia (US), whose algorithms can interpret ECG signals from 1-3 lead ambulatory devices up to a traditional 12-lead resting ECG. Active vendors in this space (i.e.,

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Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Aslanger's pattern (Smith was co-author on this): A new electrocardiographic pattern indicating inferior myocardial infarction The next troponin returned at 8822 ng/L. Hyperacute T-wave in lead III, with reciprocal findings in aVL -- single lead OMI in the setting of multivessel disease.

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