As recently as 40 years ago, biomarkers used for the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (MI) were nonspecific and assays were not highly reproducible from one laboratory to another. This led to ...

MUNICH — The fourth universal definition of myocardial infarction issued jointly by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), the American College of Cardiology (ACC), the American Heart Association ...

MUNICH, Germany—The fourth iteration of the universal definition of MI, released to coincide with the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2018 here last week, makes clear that not every ...

Unrecognized MI Prevalent in Older Adults, Ups Mortality An updated universal definition of myocardial infarction (MI) includes detection of a rise and/or fall in cardiac biomarker values, preferably ...

The original WHO definition of myocardial infarction (MI) was revised in 2000 and further refined in 2007. Central to the new universal definition of MI was the use of the highly sensitive and ...

Developed jointly by the European Society of Cardiology, the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, and the World Heart Federation, the new document will be used worldwide. An ...

One of the most compelling questions regarding the November 2000 hospitalization of Vice President Dick Cheney was whether or not he'd really had a heart attack. Why the confusion? It may have been ...

Myocardial ischemia is a drop in blood flow to the heart. Myocardial infarction, or heart attack, occurs when death or damage occurs in the muscle tissue of the heart due to low blood supply. The ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The minimum high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I tied to 30-day death after cardiac surgery was found to be ...

Acute myocardial infarction can be triggered by acute respiratory infections. Previous studies have suggested an association between influenza and acute myocardial infarction, but those studies used ...

A non-transmural myocardial infarction refers to a myocardial infarction that does not involve the full thickness of the myocardium. It was one believed that the development of Q waves indicated that ...