Objective: To illustrate the significance of vertebral body infarction as the only confirmatory sign of spinal cord ischemic stroke. Setting: Department of Neurology, St. Josef-Hospital, Bochum, ...

The elderly account for the majority of medical spending in many countries, raising concerns about potentially unnecessary spending, especially during the final months of life. Using a well-defined ...

If your speech suddenly becomes slurred, or you experience sudden weakness in one side of your face, arm, or leg, along with an unbearable headache, ...

Cardiologist evaluation for post-noncardiac surgery PMI patients reduces one-year risks of major adverse cardiac events and all-cause death.

A septal infarct is an area of dead tissue in the septum of the heart, which is a wall of tissue dividing the two sides of the heart. It happens when there is a blockage or reduction in its blood ...

The comparative efficacy of various anticoagulation strategies has not been clearly established in patients with acute myocardial infarction who are undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) ...

THIS is a study of 258 hospitalized diabetic patients who sustained acute myocardial infarction. The data deal with the immediate mortality of the acute attack and the five-year survival among those ...

Patients with vs without RA have higher long-term all-cause and cardiovascular mortality post-AMI, despite receiving comparable inpatient care.

Credit: Getty Images A discussion of the use of beta-blocker therapy following AMI, with Christopher Granger, MD, Gregg Fonarow, MD, and Carlin S Long, MD. Beta blockers have long been included in the ...

In an interview with HT Lifestyle, Dr Anup Taksande, Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at Wockhardt Hospitals in Mumbai's Mira Road, shared, “The primary cause of myocardial infarction is ...

If the finding on an ECG is “septal infarct, age undetermined,” it means that the patient possibly had a heart attack at an undetermined time in the past. Septal infarct is a patch of dead, dying, or ...