1. Frost & Sullivan applauds SHL Telemedicine for excellence in product innovation
(Company News/SHL Telemedicine Ltd.)

... service helps to drastically reduce morbidity and mortality rates following an acute MI or other severe cardiac incidents.” SHL Telemedicine performed an extended six-month Acute Coronary Syndrome Israel ...

2. MRI can detect Post-reperfusion haemorrhage following acute MI
(Communities/MRI)

Researchers at the MRC Clinical sciences Centre at Imperial College London have taken images of post heart attack bleeding into the heart muscle using MRI, according to a news release from the MRC. •    ...

3. Multidetector CT patterns predict functional outcomes after acute MI
(Communities/CT)

Enhancement patterns on multidetector CT (MDCT) predict myocardial dysfunction and recovery after acute myocardial infarction (AMI), according to findings published in the September issue of Radiology. by ...

4. Doppler echo indicates post-infarction myocardial viability
(Imported/Imported)

... who had had their first anterior ST elevation acute MI and were successfully reperfused by coronary angioplasty. Also included were 5 controls without coronary artery disease. Blood flow velocity spectrum ...

5. Acute MI rare in adolescents
(Imported/Imported)

... August issue of the Journal of Pediatrics. The team estimated that in the US there are 157 acute MI admissions annually in patients aged 13 to 18 years. The incidence is about 6.6 per million patient-years. ...

6. Sirolimus stents exacerbate endothelial injury after MI
(Radiology News/Radiology Articles)

... stents reduce restenosis rates and revascularization but may impair recovery from reperfusion-induced endothelial injury. To investigate, the researchers studied 29 patients with a first acute MI of the ...

7. Left ventricular dyssynchrony after MI predicts ventricular remodeling
(Imported/Imported)

... from Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands, and associates studied 178 consecutive patients who underwent primary percutaneous intervention for acute MI. "Left ventricular dyssynchrony was ...

8. PCI complications fewer with radial rather than femoral approach
(Imported/Imported)

... Dr. Camille Brasselet and colleagues at CHU Robert Develet, Rheims compared the two techniques in 114 patients with acute MI. The patients were randomized to receive PCI via the radial or femoral approach, ...

9. Late PCI after acute MI improves cardiac function and survival
(Communities/Cardiac Vasculature)

Percutaneous coronary intervention of the infarct-related artery performed 12 hours to 60 days after acute MI improves cardiac function and survival compared with medical therapy, results indicate. Percutaneous ...

10. MRI discriminates new myocardial infarction from old infarct scar
(Communities/MRI)

... significant changes in blood pressure or arterial oxygen saturation in either the acute or chronic infarction setting, the researchers note. "The capability of distinguishing acute MIs from scar tissue ...

11. Filter system does not improve outcome of primary coronary stent placement
(Imported/Imported)

Distal protection with a filterwire system during primary percutaneous coronary intervention for acute MI does not enhance microvascular perfusion, reduce infarct size, or help prevent cardiovascular events. ...

12. Thrombus aspiration with PCI seen warranted in select patients
(Imported/Imported)

... key message of this study," Dr. Waksman told Reuters Health, "is that when patients with acute MI present with a thrombus in their coronary artery, aspiration of this thrombus is beneficial ... and has ...

13. Pregnancy a risk factor for acute MI
(Radiology News/Radiology Articles)

... important that physicians who take care of women during pregnancy and after delivery be aware of the occasional occurrence of acute MI in pregnancy and not overlook symptoms in these young patients," Dr. ...

14. Acute MI may mimic clinical failure in community-acquired pneumonia
(Radiology News/Radiology Articles)

In cases of clinical failure in patients hospitalized for community-acquired pneumonia, acute MI should be considered as a possible etiology, investigators say. In cases of clinical failure in patients ...

15. Coronary spasm provocation predicts adverse events in MI patients
(Radiology News/Radiology Articles)

After an acute MI, patients in whom coronary spasm can be triggered by acetylcholine provocation have a poorer prognosis, Japanese researchers report. After an acute MI, patients in whom coronary spasm ...

16. Stem cell therapy improves left ventricular synchronous contraction post MI
(Radiology News/Radiology Articles)

After acute MI, intracoronary infusion of autologous stem cells contributes to restoration of LV synchronous contraction, according to a report in the August issue of Heart. After acute myocardial ...

17. Intracoronary bone marrow cell infusion improves post-MI diastolic function
(Radiology News/Radiology Articles)

... China shows. "Regeneration of the myocardium and improved ventricular function have been demonstrated in patients with acute MI treated by intracoronary delivery of autologous BMC a few days after successful ...

18. Drug-eluting stents in acute MI cut mortality, repeat revascularizations
(Radiology News/Radiology Articles)

As a treatment for acute MI, PCI with a drug-eluting stent rather than with a bare-metal stent reduces two-year mortality, according to a study. As a treatment for acute MI, percutaneous coronary intervention ...

19. Heart failure quadruples risk of bone fracture
(Imported/Imported)

... whose diagnoses included acute MI, cardiac dysrhythmia, and angina. In the first year after their index visit, 4.6 per cent of patients with heart failure and 1.0 per cent of control patients sustained ...

20. Thrombus aspiration improves outcomes of primary PCI for acute MI
(Imported/Imported)

... during PCI in Acute MI Study (TAPAS), Dr. Felix Zijlstra, from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, and colleagues assessed the outcomes of 1071 patients who were randomized to undergo thrombus-aspiration ...