In 1990, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and American Heart Association (AHA) produced their first guideline for the management of patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI). This ...

A 50-year-old woman experiences jaw discomfort while at work. It increases in intensity, accompanied by diaphoresis and nausea. An ambulance is called 40 minutes after symptom onset. On arrival to the ...

Competing interests: None declared for Drs. Bogaty and O'Neill. Dr. Armstrong has received research funding from Hoffmann–La Roche, Aventis and Boehringer Ingelheim, and educational and consultant ...

An artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that mines ECG data and alerts the primary PCI team to activate the cath lab can reduce STEMI patients’ arrival times by as much as 10 minutes, according to ...

About 35 years ago, Eugene Braunwald, MD, MACC, postulated a revolutionary hypothesis: time is muscle. He proposed that acute MI is a dynamic process and that its clinical outcome is determined ...

Patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction who present late to the hospital—beyond 12 hours—fare significantly better in short- and long-term follow-up if they are treated with coronary ...

Coronary artery disease (CAD) remains highly prevalent in the Indian population, with Indians facing a three-four times ...