Current clinical care patterns document the tendency to disregard patients with “normal” or nonobstructive coronary angiography who are predominantly women in the setting of chest pain symptoms. New ...

Ischemia and reperfusion–elicited tissue injury contributes to morbidity and mortality in a wide range of pathologies, including myocardial infarction, ischemic stroke, acute kidney injury, trauma, ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Intracerebral hemorrhage correlated with an increased risk for ischemic stroke and myocardial infarction, ...

A 61-year-old man presented to the emergency department with epigastric pain lasting 3 hours, preceded by vomiting and watery diarrhea for 2 days. He had a 7-year history of hypertension, diabetes ...

The risk of ischemic stroke one year after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) dropped by 21% over a ten year period, according to new research. The risk of ischemic stroke one year after acute ...

SANTIAGO, Chile — Some individuals with migraines may have an increased vulnerability to brain tissue injury during acute ischemic stroke. A good indicator of the amount of salvageable brain tissue is ...

Mesenteric ischemia is caused by blood flow that is insufficient to meet the metabolic demands of the visceral organs. The severity of ischemia and the type of organ involved depend on the affected ...

Neuroprotection by ischemic preconditioning has been confirmed by many studies, but the precise mechanism remains unclear. In a study released in the Neural Regeneration Research (Vol. 9, No. 11, 2014 ...

Given the size of the stroke depicted in Figure 1 (greater than one third of the hemisphere), thrombolytic therapy would be contraindicated for this patient. Indications of a hemorrhagic stroke ...

Hemodynamic support reduces 6-month mortality in patients with large ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) complicated by persistent ischemia after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI ...

PARIS, France—When used at the right time and in the right patients, intra-aortic balloon pumps (IABPs) might improve outcomes following STEMI, 6-month results from the SEMPER-FI pilot study suggest.