The purpose of this study was to examine whether the symptoms experienced by patients with unstable angina (UA) differed from the symptoms experienced by patients with myocardial infarction (MI).

Angina pectoris occurs when your heart muscle (myocardium) does not get enough blood and oxygen. Not enough blood supply is called ischemia. Angina can be a symptom of coronary artery disease (CAD).

[15,16] Of these studies, a number limited their sample to those patients experiencing MI. [7,8,14,15,16] The remainder included both patients with UA and MI. [11,12,13,17,18] Given the different ...

Although technical improvements have yielded higher success rates of CTO‐PCI, a beneficial effect on mortality or myocardial infarction has not yet been proven by previous randomized studies. However, ...

Although complication rates were higher for a discharge diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction than for unstable angina, there was no evidence that the effects of serum glucose concentration were ...

Cardiovascular events are not significantly decreased with edetate disodium chelation in patients with CAD and history of myocardial infarction and diabetes.

After screening and diagnosis of hypercholesterolemia comes the difficult part -- making decisions about how to proceed. The ...

A discussion of the use of beta-blocker therapy following AMI, with Christopher Granger, MD, Gregg Fonarow, MD, and Carlin S ...

The following is a summary of “Comparison of liberal versus restrictive transfusion strategies after hip surgery in patients ...

Tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-a) is a cytokine. A cytokine is a small protein. TNF-a is involved in inflammation. Drugs such as infliximab, etanercept, and adalimumab inhibit TNF activity and ...