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 ...

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 ...

- Reduced inflammation at the site of myocardial infarction and improved heart function demonstrated. Novel therapy to modulate immune response with apoptotic cell-derived nanovesicles. Myocardial ...

Background A 53-year-old man presented to hospital 2 hours after the abrupt onset of left upper abdominal pain. He was treated with analgesics and discharged after 4 hours of observation, but ...

Myocardial infarction (MI) – more regularly known as a heart attack – is an acute phenomenon initiated by the interruption of blood supply to regions of the heart, causing myocardial necrosis.

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 ...

THE electrocardiographic findings resulting from infarction of the interventricular septum were recently described by Roesler and Dressler.‡ These investigators found that when the septum was involved ...

A 72 year-old woman developed the abrupt onset of difficulty seeing on the right side. Posterior Cerebral Artery (PCA) Infarction: Axial CT scans 3 days after presentation. Note the hypodensity in the ...

A 60 year-old woman developed the abrupt onset of difficulty seeing on the left side following the traumatic placement of a central line that punctured the right subclavian artery. Posterior Cerebral ...

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 ...

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 ...