Freeman Heart & Vascular Institute has earned Level 1 STEMI designation from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior ...

I was involved in a malpractice case a couple of years ago as a consultant. The case involved an emergency physician who was being sued for failure to make a rapid diagnosis of an ST-segment elevation ...

myocardial infarction, heart attack Even patients with advanced CKD or receiving dialysis appear to benefit from guideline-directed STEMI therapies, according to a retrospective study. Patients with ...

More than one-third of patients referred for primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) from the emergency department do not have ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), according to ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Risk factors for patients with acute MI have changed modestly as treatment has improved, with mortality rates ...

Many fewer Americans are falling prey to the most dangerous form of heart attack, a new study says. STEMI (ST‐segment-elevation myocardial infarction) heart attacks have declined by nearly 50% during ...

PARIS, FRANCE — A unique imaging study has, for the first time, determined that the pathophysiology of STEMI is nearly identical in men and women—a finding that refutes the theory that the mechanisms ...

PARIS, France—In patients with STEMI and multivessel disease, quantitative flow ratio (QFR) may provide better information than fractional flow reserve (FFR) on how nonculprit lesions will affect ...

Immediate revascularization of nonculprit lesions in patients with STEMI was not superior compared with deferred percutaneous ...