A Multi-marker Model for Predicting Decompensated Heart Failure in Patients with Prior Acute Myocardial Infarction [PDF]
, 2020 The aim of the study was to assess the prognostic value of determining the plasma concentration of NT-proBNP and ST2 in the patients with decompensated HF and prior acute myocardial infarction and their combination in this category of patients.Materials ...
Levandovska, K. (Khrystyna)
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Efficacy and Safety of Low-Dose Colchicine after Myocardial Infarction.
New England Journal of Medicine, 2019 BACKGROUND Experimental and clinical evidence support the role of inflammation in atherosclerosis and its complications. Colchicine is an orally administered, potent antiinflammatory medication that is indicated for the treatment of gout and pericarditis.
J. Tardif +24 more
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Cardiogenic Shock After Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Review.
Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2021 Importance Cardiogenic shock affects between 40 000 and 50 000 people in the US per year and is the leading cause of in-hospital mortality following acute myocardial infarction.
Marc D. Samsky +5 more
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BMC Medical Genomics, 2021 Background Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is a major contributor of heart failure (HF). Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), mainly monocytes, are the essential initiators of AMI-induced HF.
Qixin Chen +5 more
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Infective endocarditis with embolic renal infarct presenting as acute abdomen [PDF]
Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine, 2021 Infective endocarditis (IE) is a disease that is rare but potentially fatal and challenging to diagnose. A 28-year-old man with sickle cell trait and a history of intravenous drug use presented with abdominal pain and hematuria mimicking a surgical ...
Mustafa Mahmood Eid
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Type 2 myocardial infarction: the chimaera of cardiology? [PDF]
, 2015 The term type 2 myocardial infarction first appeared as part of the universal definition of myocardial infarction. It was introduced to cover a group of patients who had elevation of cardiac troponin but did not meet the traditional criteria for acute ...
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Alterations of medial prefrontal cortex bioelectrical activity in experimental model of isoprenaline-induced myocardial infarction [PDF]
, 2020 Background Clinical and animal studies have found that anxiety and depression are significantly more common after acute myocardial infarction (AMI).
Hrnčić, Dragan +7 more
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Infarct size and left ventricular remodelling after preventive percutaneous coronary intervention [PDF]
, 2016 Objective: We hypothesised that, compared with culprit-only primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), additional preventive PCI in selected patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction with multivessel disease would not be associated with ...
Berry, Colin +13 more
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Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2017 BackgroundIMPROVE‐IT (Improved Reduction of Outcomes: Vytorin Efficacy International Trial) showed that adding the nonstatin ezetimibe to statin therapy further reduced cardiovascular events in patients after an acute coronary syndrome. In a prespecified
Eri Toda Kato +9 more
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Prognostic value of the myocardial salvage index measured by T2-weighted and T1-weighted late gadolinium enhancement magnetic resonance imaging after ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: A systematic review and meta-regression analysis [PDF]
, 2020 In all patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction, risk stratification should be performed before discharge. The measurement of therapy efficiency with magnetic resonance imaging has been proposed as part of the risk assessment, but it has ...
Dewey, Marc, Kendziora, Benjamin
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