When discussing heart health, the words 'myocardial infarction' and 'heart attack' are used interchangeably as if they are ...

BACKGROUND: Direct reprogramming of fibroblasts to cardiomyocytes is a potentially curative strategy for ischemic heart ...

Myocardial infarction, commonly known as a heart attack, is one of the most serious heart problems people can face. It ...

Cardiologist explains that a heart attack isn't always fatal, and even patients with a very low survival chance can be saved with timely, advanced cardiac care.

Myocardial infarction is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. In this consensus document, experts from the ESC, ACCF, AHA, and WHF update the universal definition and classification ...

Myocardial infarction results in a release of LD 4 and LD 5 from the cardiac tissue and is associated with an increase in pLD 4 and pLD 5 in the isoenzyme pattern.

An increasing proportion of older patients (≥75 years of age) are being admitted to hospitals with myocardial infarction. Although increasing age is a known predictor of a poor outcome after ...

Because Canada has a universal healthcare system, financial differences in access to care cannot fully explain the observed ...

In the appendix we also report linear regressions of 30-day and 365-day post–acute myocardial infarction mortality, similarly graphing observed data points along with fitted models as a function ...

The ECG findings of an old anterior myocardial infarction include: Loss of anterior forces leaving Q waves in leads V1 and V2. This is sometimes termed "poor R wave progression" or PRWP.