Barcelona, Spain, 1 September: The wider use of reperfusion therapy in patients with heart attack (AMI) can save millions of lives in Europe. Effective reperfusion therapy in an AMI patient can cut ...
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Background: Through the AMI-QUEBEC Study we sought to describe delays to reperfusion therapy for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and to identify factors associated with prolonged ...
In their article on delays to reperfusion therapy in the province of Quebec, Thao Huynh and associates concluded that for most patients the time to primary percutaneous coronary intervention exceeded ...
Acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction is estimated to occur in more than 500,000 people in the US every year. With the introduction of reperfusion therapy by fibrinolysis or primary ...
Barcelona, Spain, 31 August: A new trial has begun in order to ascertain once and for all whether the best strategy for patients who cannot receive P-PCI is early fibrinolysis, together with mandated ...
The advent of thrombolytic therapy initiated the era of pharmacologic reperfusion in the acute phase of myocardial infarction (MI). Although it was a major improvement in the treatment of acute MI ...
Recent national efforts are drawing attention to the importance of door-to-balloon time as a key indicator of quality of care for patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction who are treated with ...
Coronary arterial occlusion due to thrombosis is the cause of most cases of myocardial infarction accompanied by ST-segment elevation. Rapid restoration of blood flow to jeopardized myocardium limits ...
The most common procedure to save the life of a patient suffering a heart attack can, for some, result in bleeding within the heart muscle later on, leading to heart failure, a new study involving ...
Although primary PCI is the preferred approach for the majority of patients if it can be performed by an experienced operator and within 90 minutes of time-to-balloon, access to such resources tends ...