Parma, Italy - Authors of a new, prospective, multicenter study say their research is the first to clearly show a link between elevated creatine kinase MB (CK-MB) post-PCI and increased risk of ...
Cardiovascular diseases remain the leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for nearly 20 million deaths each year. Rapid ...
The widely used biomarker contributes to the hundreds of millions of dollars spent annually on cardiac care, but adds no value in evaluating patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome, ...
For assessing myocardial injury following percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), troponin I is overly sensitive and fails to distinguish procedure-related myocardial infarction (MI) from minor ...
DALLAS, Aug. 20 – A test commonly used to diagnose heart attacks may also identify patients at increased risk of death after balloon angioplasty, according to a study in today's rapid access issue of ...
Definitions for what constitutes elevation of creatine kinase-MB (CK-MB) vary widely among centers. Setting absolute rather than relative thresholds may help pinpoint clinically relevant levels of the ...
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Mayo Clinic have compiled peer-reviewed evidence and crafted a guideline designed to help physicians and medical centers stop the ...
Nearly 7 million patients present to U.S. emergency departments annually for evaluation of possible acute coronary syndromes (ACSs). Despite hospital admission of the 25% to 30% who have atypical ...
Patients who underwent coronary artery bypass graft surgery and had elevated levels of the cardiac enzymes creatine kinase or troponin in the 24 hours following surgery had an associated intermediate ...
A motorcycle accident five years ago that damaged his cervical spinal cord left a 65-year-old African-American man with left spastic hemiparesis (almost hemiparalysis). He takes baclofen for the ...
The occurrence of acute myocardial infarction (MI) during coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery varies greatly, depending on the diagnostic criteria used. Although findings have suggested ...