Nicorandil Protects Older Patients from Myocardial Injury After PCI

Nicorandil Protects Older Patients from Myocardial Injury After PCI

Intravenous nicorandil cut the risk of periprocedural myocardial injury (pMI) after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) by 49 percent among patients 65 and older, according to a substudy of a randomized trial published... read more

Understanding How to Improve Quality and Value for Patients With AMI

Understanding How to Improve Quality and Value for Patients With AMI

Although the United States lags behind comparable nations in many health measures, mortality following acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is lower in the United States than in many other developed countries, including Finland,... read more

Accuracy of Medical Claims for Identifying Cardiovascular and Bleeding Events After Myocardial Infarction

Accuracy of Medical Claims for Identifying Cardiovascular and Bleeding Events After Myocardial Infarction

In this secondary analysis of a clinical trial of 12 365 patients with acute myocardial infarction, the cumulative 1-year event rates for myocardial infarction, stroke, and bleeding were lower when medical claims were used... read more

Pain Sensitivity Plays a Role in Unrecognized Myocardial Infarction

Pain Sensitivity Plays a Role in Unrecognized Myocardial Infarction

People who experience unrecognized or silent myocardial infarction may have reduced pain sensitivity compared with those whose Myocardial Infarction is noticed, according to the results of a study recently published online... read more