Slower heart rate recovery before PCI independently predicts periprocedural myocardial infarction and may improve cardiac risk assessment.

While there are therapies to aid in overall heart health, there are very few preventative therapies for heart failure after a significant heart attack, a serious condition that has a very significant ...

Epicardial adipose tissue was associated with greater cardiac injury among patients who experienced an acute myocardial ...

Patients with HIV face a significantly higher 30-day readmission risk following hospitalization for HF or AMI compared with those without HIV.

CARDIAC rupture with hemorrhage into the pericardium has long been recognized as a dramatic and rapidly fatal complication of myocardial infarction. Despite its invariably fatal termination, rupture ...

Scientists at Northwestern University and at the University of California San Diego have developed a potent injectable therapy that the results of rodent studies showed can protect the heart from ...

If the finding on an ECG is “septal infarct, age undetermined,” it means that the patient possibly had a heart attack at an undetermined time in the past. Septal infarct is a patch of dead, dying, or ...