This review focuses on the initial presentation and in-hospital management of acute myocardial infarction, including selection of a management strategy and options for antithrombotic therapy.

Researchers investigated whether Tongxinluo, a Chinese medicinal compound, could improve clinical outcomes among ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction patients.

Myocardial infarction (MI), commonly referred to as heart attack, occurs due to severe reduction or stoppage of blood supply to the heart muscle.

In the second part of the article, developments following the „discovery” of ischemic heart disease and gaining understanding of its nature have been presented starting from the first intravital ...

Nuclear medicine provides imaging modalities that can be used to observe physiological processes in the human body, particularly in the bones, heart, lungs, renal system and brain. This article – the ...

Knowing the symptoms of a heart attack can save lives. Learn how to recognize the warning signs and take immediate action with this informative guide.

This results in tissue loss and increased inflammation, fibrosis and a progressive decrease in cardiac function, all of which are hallmarks of myocardial infarction-induced heart failure. The molecule ...

Clinical consequences of atherosclerosis may be myocardial ischemia/infarction, PAD or stroke, depending on the location of the atherosclerotic lesions.

Carotid-artery stenting and carotid endarterectomy are both options for treating carotid-artery stenosis, an important cause of stroke. We randomly assigned patients with symptomatic or asymptomati ...

The beginning of Polish interest in cardiac diseases are associated with an eminent medieval physician, Thomas of Wrocław. In Part 1, a history of studies on myocardial infarction ends with ...