For patients with either NSTEMI or STEMI, American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association (ACC/AHA) guidelines recommend that intravenous unfractionated heparin (UFH) be dosed by weight ...

STEMI criteria alone aren’t perfect for identifying occluded arteries, but still some question the need for a new paradigm.

Current guidelines support culprit-only PCI in these cases, but the “hypothesis-generating” results suggest taking a closer ...

The “ Acute Myocardial Infarction Market Report ” by DelveInsight offers a robust analysis of market size, treatment ...

More importantly, and less well described in the literature, is how this risk:benefit ratio plays out for patients with NSTEMI or for patients with ACS. As in the case of STEMI, the outcome of DES ...

Heart attacks may be STEMI, meaning the coronary artery is completely blocked. Or they may be non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI), meaning the artery is partially blocked and severely ...

have a higher risk of short-term mortality than patients with non-STEMI (NSTEMI), who have a higher risk of long-term mortality, Mark Chan and colleagues report. Current data on the difference in ...

Unless contraindicated, all patients with unstable angina and non-STEMI should receive anticoagulation. Based on available data and current guidelines, the choice of anticoagulant differs between ...