An 85 year-old woman presented with vertigo, nausea and vomiting. Examination showed a left sided Horner's syndrome, left facial numbness, left sided ataxia, weakness of the left soft palate, slurred ...

Previous studies suggest that the proportion of ischemic risk zone that becomes necrotic following myocardial infarction (MI) is directly correlated with temperature. According to Hale and Kloner, [1] ...

A 61-year-old man presented to the emergency department with epigastric pain lasting 3 hours, preceded by vomiting and watery diarrhea for 2 days. He had a 7-year history of hypertension, diabetes ...

There are Q waves in the inferior leads and in leads V1-V4 (anteroseptal leads). This indicates an infarction, possibly old. What is concerning about this ECG tracing are the ST segments. There is an ...

The most serious form of the acute coronary syndrome, ST segment elevation myocardial infarction, or STEMI, most often results from complete thrombotic occlusion of a major epicardial coronary artery.

In animals, brief episodes of ischemia before a total coronary occlusion protect the heart and result in a smaller myocardial infarct size. In humans, episodes of angina before acute myocardial ...