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 ...

A 62 year-old man had an upper GI bleed complicated by severe hypotension. Several days after successful surgical repair of a bleeding gastric ulcer, he was noted to have significant weakness of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

San Francisco, CA—Rapid endovascular catheter core cooling combined with cold saline was safe and effective in patients with anterior or large inferior STEMI, according to results from the CHILL-MI ...

SVR with coronary artery bypass grafting and mitral-valve surgery improves late prognosis in patients with ischemic dilatated heart, although perioperative risk is high with advanced NYHA class The ...

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 ...

A 78 year-old man presented with numerous, recurrent spells of transient loss of vision in the right eye. Otherwise, his neurological examination was normal. Watershed Infarction: (Left) Right Carotid ...