Because lethal ventricular arrhythmias may develop abruptly in patients with STEMI, the ACC/AHA guidelines suggest all patients be monitored with electrocardiography (ECG) on arrival in the emergency ...

BARCELONA, SPAIN — New guidelines for managing and treating patients with acute ST-segment elevation MI (STEMI) just issued by European Society of Cardiology (ESC) update the previous 2012 guidelines ...

Diagnosis The 12-lead ECG, serum cardiac biomarkers, and clinical presentation are the predominate tools for diagnosing acute STEMI or NSTEMI. On the 12-lead, ST elevation in 2 contiguous leads in a ...

An anterior myocardial infarction results from occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery. This can cause an ST elevation myocardial infarction or a non-ST segment elevation myocardial ...

37 yr old normotensive, euglycemic female patient was referred for acute inferior wall MI with recurrent angina status post treatment with streptokinase. Her physical examination at the time of ...

Myocardial infarction (MI) causes millions of deaths worldwide. Though there have been advances in the survival rates following ST-elevation MI (STEMI), survivors often develop heart failure due to ...

ST-segment elevation on the EKG in COVID-19 patients was especially complex and had poor prognosis in a small case series from New York City hospitals. Confirmed COVID-19 was complicated by ST-segment ...

Using artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze electrocardiograms (ECG) improved detection of severe heart attacks, including those that presented with unconventional symptoms, or atypical ECG patterns ...