Medical Management/Treatment Initial treatment for suspected STEMI and NSTEMI requires a loading dose of nonenteric coated ASA at 162 to 325 mg (unless contraindicated), nitroglycerin in response to ...

Heart attack death rates rose by 1.2% among adults younger than age 55 who were hospitalized between 2011 and 2022 with a first severe heart attack, according to a February study published in the ...

In patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and multivessel disease, fractional flow reserve (FFR)-guided complete nonculprit revascularization did not reduce death, myocardial ...

Some clinicians say that testing for occlusion myocardial infarction (OMI) instead might be a better tool for making that determination. “We think we should get rid of the term ST-elevation MI, ...

The incidence of no-reflow was significantly higher in the thrombectomy group (1.4% vs 0.2%), which researchers attributed to ...