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ACC 2019 | Having an Infarction at Very Young Age or 10 Years Later Does Not Change Long-Term Mortality

Patients who suffered their first coronary event before turning 40 years old have similar long-term mortality to those...

ACC 2019 | SAFARI: Unexpectedly, Radial Approach Offers No Benefits In STEMI

This study was not able to show benefits in terms of mortality or bleeding when using radial...

Errata sheet regarding the publication “The Impella device questioned in the post-approval studies due to an increase of adverse events”

What was published in our website refers to the original publication by the FDA (Increased rate of...

Optimal Revascularization Time in Transient STEMI

Patients admitted with transient ST elevation MI and later normalize completely (symptimos disappear before being treated) are...

The Ten Commandments for the Fourth Universal Definition of Infarction

The Fourth Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction is a document developed jointly by the European Society of...

“Troponinitis” or “Troponinemia”: Terms that Trivialize Troponin Elevation Without a Specified Diagnosis

Troponin elevation is a common finding in acute patients admitted by an emergency service, even in the...

Acute Coronary Syndromes After TAVR: Frequent and Not All Undergo Coronary Angiography

Approximately 10% of patients who undergo transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) are readmitted for an acute coronary...

Can We Discontinue Betablockers after AMI?

Betablockers (BB) were the first drugs shown to effectively reduce events after acute MI. However, reperfusion and...