International Stroke Conference of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association was held from Feb. 5 to 7 in ...

Dr Iresh Shetty, Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, KMC Hospital Mangalore Ischemic Heart disease is considered to be the leading cause of death not only in India but across the world. Previously thought to ...

Because the earliest ECG changes of acute cardiac ischemia are in the ST-T segment, emphasis for early diagnosis and risk classification should be on ST-T segment changes. Two approaches have been ...

The ECG readout findings include: ST segment: 116; and ST and T-wave abnormalities. The initial findings suggest lateral and inferior ischemia. The ECG findings show sinus tachycardia following ...

In this issue of Circulation Research, Cao et al 13 describes the creation of several cellular and mouse models to determine the isoform-specific role of γ-AMPK in cardiac ischemia/reperfusion injury.

ECG-derived LVH has been strongly linked with the risk of ischemic stroke. [48] LVH also predicts cognitive dysfunction where subclinical stroke is a potential contributor. [49,50] It is even ...

However, a recent meta-analysis by Pickering et al (2017) have concluded that a single hsTnT concentration below the LoD in combination with a non-ischemic ECG provided excellent NPV (99.3 per cent) ...

Clinical practice guidelines on the use of antiplatelet therapy should aim to be more consistent in how they prioritize ischemic and bleeding risks across patient groups, argue the authors of a new ...