Will the Real Myocardial Infarction Please Stand Up?

Clinical Chemistry;  May 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......is labeled as having suffered a myocardial infarction, that individual's ability to hold...the treatment of patients with myocardial infarction. Unfortunately, clinicians and...may use different definitions of myocardial infarction. For example, characteristics used...

Candidates for early discharge after myocardial infarction. (adapted from...

American Family Physician;  October 1, 1994 ;     403 words ......length of hospital stay following myocardial infarction have changed dramatically. In the...length of hospital stay following myocardial infarction depends on identification of patients...years of age who were admitted for myocardial infarction. The authors used forward stepwise...

Tar yield of cigarettes and myocardial infarction risk. (Tips from Other...

American Family Physician;  November 1, 1993 ;     451 words ......cardiovascular disease, including myocardial infarction, and cancer of various sites. The...relationship of tar yield to risk of myocardial infarction has not been elucidated. Negri...yield of cigarettes and the risk of myocardial infarction. Data were collected and analyzed...

Perceptions of outcome after myocardial infarction.(Tips from Other...

American Family Physician;  December 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......perspective, the subjective outcome of a myocardial infarction is of great importance. Patients...physicians perceived and evaluated the myocardial infarction and how these perceptions affected...and again six months after the myocardial infarction. In the first two interviews, ...

Costs of anticoagulation after myocardial infarction. (adapted from the...

American Family Physician;  September 1, 1995 ;     441 words ......receive anticoagulation therapy after myocardial infarction have fewer cardiovascular complications...therapy in patients with recent myocardial infarction. Data from the Anticoagulants in...discharged from the hospital after myocardial infarction. Patients were randomly assigned...

Serial assessment of sympathetic reinnervation in a patient with...

The Journal of Nuclear Medicine;  March 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......after successfully reperfused myocardial infarction. Although [^sup 123^I]MIBG uptake...iodine-123-MIBG; myocardial reinnervation; myocardial infarction Nucl Med 1997; 38:457459 Myocardial infarction produces sympathetic denervation...

Neonatal myocardial infarction due to thrombotic occlusion

Journal of Maternal - Fetal & Neonatal Medicine;  February 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Abstract Neonatal myocardial infarction is rare and its prognosis...a newborn female with myocardial infarction. Her clinical course...This case illustrates myocardial infarction as a possible cause of...

Psoriasis patients may have increased risk of myocardial infarction

Dermatology Times;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......evidence has linked psoriasis to myocardial infarction, explains Joel M. Gelfand, M.D...evidence has linked Th-1 diseases with myocardial infarction. Inflammation plays a key role...IL-6 are elevated in patients with myocardial infarction and can he elevated in patients...

Acute myocardial infarction in a 14-year-old male with normal coronary...

Southern Medical Journal;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...To the Editor: Acute myocardial infarction may occur when the coronary...in the pathogenesis of myocardial infarction. Coronary artery spasm...predisposing risk factor for myocardial infarction in the presence of normal...

Beta blockers and myocardial infarction in elderly patients.(Tips from...

American Family Physician;  April 1, 1997 ;     478 words ......use of beta blockers after acute myocardial infarction is known to decrease cardiovascular...group of patients in whom acute myocardial infarction is a frequent cause of death. Soumerai...in elderly patients after acute myocardial infarction and if underuse led to higher rates...

Treatment of depression after myocardial infarction.(Tips)

American Family Physician;  February 15, 2006 ;     699 words ......who have had a recent myocardial infarction will suffer from major...for recurrent nonfatal myocardial infarction and for cardiac mortality...who have had a recent myocardial infarction, independent of cardiac...

Oral contraceptive use and risk of myocardial infarction.(Tips From Other...

American Family Physician;  November 1, 1997 ;     515 words ......cardiovascular disease, especially myocardial infarction, and the use of oral contraceptives...contraceptives and the risk of myocardial infarction. The study identified 368 women...hospital because of evidence of acute myocardial infarction. Excluded from the study were women...

Use of oral captopril after acute myocardial infarction. (adapted from the...

American Family Physician;  July 1, 1995 ;     430 words ......enzyme (ACE) inhibitors soon after myocardial infarction remains controversial. Potential...inhibitors in patients with recent myocardial infarction. The Chinese Cardiac Study Collaborative...within 36 hours of suspected acute myocardial infarction. Patients were randomized to ...

Prognostic Value of Myocardial Ischemia in Patients with Uncomplicated...

The Journal of Nuclear Medicine;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......imaging in patients with prior myocardial infarction. Methods: The study population...after a first acute uncomplicated myocardial infarction treated with thrombolysis. Fifty...excluded. Cardiac death and nonfatal myocardial infarction were considered events. Follow...

Beta blockers after myocardial infarction in older patients. (adapted from...

American Family Physician;  December 1, 1995 ;     282 words ......Although use of beta blockers after myocardial infarction has been shown to reduce mortality...retrospective cohort study of patients with myocardial infarction who were admitted to a tertiary...011 patients, 76 patients with myocardial infarction who met eligibility requirements...