A 46-year-old woman with type 1 myotonic dystrophy (DM1) presented to the emergency department with dyspnea and palpitations.

Thus, lytic agents -- which are more readily available -- continue to play a very prominent role in the management of STEMI. [33] Fibrinolytic therapy can be administered in most centers within 30 ...

For a young individual who arrives soon after the onset of symptoms from a large, anterior myocardial infarction, you probably don't have too many minutes for that transfer before you start to ...

Myocardial infarction or 'heart attack' is a type of acute coronary syndrome in which sudden blockage of a coronary artery, and subsequent myocardial ischaemia, results in damage to the ...

These properties have attracted the attention of researchers investigating new therapeutic strategies for acute myocardial infarction. The role of G-CSF in bone-marrow cell mobilization removes ...

Inclusion criterion for the prospective registry was STEMI or new left bundle-branch block in patients with chest pain of <24 hours' duration. There were no exclusions; thus, the registry includes ...

lumc.nl Background Left atrial (LA) maximal volume is of prognostic value in patients after acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Recently, LA mechanical function and LA strain have been introduced as ...