Search Tag: NSTEMI

2024 02 Sep

  A study comparing an invasive strategy with optimal medical therapy alone in older adults following a non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) found no impact on the combined risk of cardiovascular death or myocardial infarction (MI), despite reductions in non-fatal MIs and subsequent revascularisation procedures. This finding was presented...Read more

2018 22 Feb

The optimal timing for potential intervention in patients with non ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI) remains unclear. Recent evidence on early versus selective percutaneous coronary intervention is ambiguous with respect to effects on mortality, myocardial infarction and recurrent angina. New research indicates a substantial treatment...Read more

2015 03 May

New research suggests that atrial fibrillation or irregular heartbeat is associated with only one type of heart attack. The study was led by Elasyed Z. Soliman, MD, Director of the Epidemiological Cardiology Research Center at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and is published in the American Heart Association Journal Circulation. Atrial fibrillation...Read more