March 8, 2004 (New Orleans) — A novel compound that inhibits calcium overload and increases calcium uptake in the sarcoplasmic reticulum fell short of expectations overall, but calderet showed promise ...

Unrecognized MI Prevalent in Older Adults, Ups Mortality For patients with anterior wall ST-segment elevated myocardial infarction (STEMI), elevated white blood cell count (WBCc) on presentation is ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Results from the CHILL-MI trial indicate that induced hypothermia before PCI significantly reduced infarct size in patients with early anterior STEMI but not across the entire study ...

Previous studies suggest that the proportion of ischemic risk zone that becomes necrotic following myocardial infarction (MI) is directly correlated with temperature. According to Hale and Kloner, [1] ...

LONDON, England—In patients with anterior STEMI, giving the immunosuppressant agent cyclosporine prior to revascularization does not to appear to improve clinical outcomes, according results of a ...

THE electrocardiographic findings resulting from infarction of the interventricular septum were recently described by Roesler and Dressler.‡ These investigators found that when the septum was involved ...

Among patients with anterior ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), elevated white blood cell (WBC) count at baseline is a powerful independent predictor of infarct size as measured by ...