See related research article by Siha and colleagues on page 1135 and at www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.111683 One could imagine a scenario in which attention to ...

Background Guidelines strongly recommend reperfusion therapy, including thrombolysis and percutaneous coronary intervention, ...

Worcester, MA - Despite impressive declines in the incidence, and mortality associated with Q-wave MI, non Q-wave MI is increasing in frequency and has the same in-hospital mortality now as it did 22 ...

April 21, 2009 (Durham, North Carolina) — Unrecognized non–Q-wave MI occurs more frequently than silent Q-wave MI in patients with suspected coronary artery disease, a new study has shown [1].

boxed-textAbdel-Aty et al. (2004) Delayed enhancement and T2-weighted cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging differentiate acute from chronic myocardial infarction. Circulation 109: 2411–2416 ...

We identified patients 30 years of age or older in a large, diverse, community-based population who were hospitalized for incident myocardial infarction between 1999 and 2008. Age- and sex-adjusted ...