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| | Myocardial infarction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Approximately one quarter of all myocardial infarctions are silent, without chest pain or other symptoms. | | | A positive troponin in the setting of chest pain may accurately predict a high likelihood of a myocardial infarction in the near future. | | | Recent attempts to reduce the damage to the heart from an acute myocardial infarction have resulted in studies of prehospital use of thrombolytics or clot busters. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myocardial_infarction
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| | Myocardial Infarction |
| | The traditional concept that myocardial infarctions can be classified as transmural or nontransmural on the basis of the presence or absence of Q waves is misleading, since autopsy studies have demonstrated convincingly that pathologic Q waves may be associated with nontransmural infarction and may be absent with transmural infarction. | | | The primary outcome - a composite of death, nonfatal reinfarction, or thromboembolic stroke - occurred in 20.0 percent of the patients in the aspirin-only group, 16.7 percent of those in the warfarin-only group, and 15.0 percent of those in the combination-therapy group. | | | In the United States, percutaneous coronary intervention and stenting are performed in 15 to 20 percent of patients who have myocardial infarction with ST-segment elevation, and an additional 20 to 40 percent undergo percutaneous coronary intervention within the subsequent six weeks. |
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http://www.rjmatthewsmd.com/Definitions/myocardial_infarction.htm
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| | Myocardial Infarction |
| | Angina pectoris- a symptom complex of IHD characterized by paroxysmal attacks of chest pain, usually substernal or precordial, caused by myocardial ischemia that falls short of inducing infarction. | | | Occlusive intracoronary thrombus- a thrombus overlying an ulcerated or fissured stenotic plaque causes 90% of transmural acute myocardial infarctions. | | | Acute myocardial infarction with rupture and tamponade, gross. |
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http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/TUTORIAL/MYOCARD/MYOCARD.html
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| | Post-Myocardial Infarction Depression: Summary of Evidence Report/Technology Assessment, No. 123 |
| | Physiological and psychological variables predict compliance to prescribed exercise therapy in patients recovering from myocardial infarction. | | | Psychiatric morbidity during the early phase of coronary care for myocardial infarction: association with cardiac diagnosis and outcome. | | | Depression and anxiety as predictors of outcome after myocardial infarction. |
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http://www.ahcpr.gov/clinic/epcsums/midepsum.htm
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| | Heart Attack Myocardial Infarction |
| | Because a heart attack (myocardial infarction) can be life threatening, men older than 35 or women older than 50 who have chest pain should be examined to see if they area having a heart attack. | | | A heart attack or myocardial infarction is a medical emergency in which the supply of blood to the heart is suddenly and severely reduced or cut off, causing the muscle to die from lack of oxygen. | | | A heart attack (myocardial infarction) is usually caused by a blood clot that blocks an artery of the heart. |
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| | myocardial infarction on Encyclopedia.com |
| | A decision tree for the early diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction in nontraumatic chest pain patients at hospital admission. | | | Thrombolysis and adjunctive therapy in acute myocardial infarction.(The Seventh ACCP Conference on Antithrombotic and Thrombolytic Therapy) | | | Characteristics and Prognosis of Myocardial Infarction in Patients With Normal Coronary Arteries(*). |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/X/X-myocard.asp
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| | Myocardial Infarction |
| | This core data set monitors the standards of care in hospital for patients with acute myocardial infarction and this publication is a collaborative effort between the Royal College of Physicians Clinical Effectiveness and Evaluation Unit and the Department of Health. | | | This core data set for examining the process of management and outcome of acute myocardial infarction has been developed in response to the establishment of the National Service Framework (NSF) for coronary heart disease. | | | Patients with acute myocardial infarction and following coronary revascularisation are identified in the National Service Framework for Coronary Heart Disease as eligible for outpatient cardiac rehabilitation but uptake remains low. |
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| | Myocardial Infraction |
| | Infarction of the myocard is accompanied by pain, increased enzyme values and EKG signs. | | | With an infarction changes in the QRS-complex are seen. | | | If two of the three typical manifestations are seen it is assumed that an infarction has taken place. |
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http://www.technion.ac.il/~eilamp/mi.html
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| | Getting better - myocardial infarction [Jan 2004; 119-3] |
| | Severity of acute myocardial infarction seems to have declined. | | | Table 1: Main changes in myocardial infarction incidence and treatment in the USA | | | Trends in treatment and outcome for acute myocardial infarction: 1975-1995. |
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| | Progress: Myocardial Infarction |
| | The amount of increase in blood pressure that increases the risk of myocardial infarction could not be determined in the above casecontrol studies. | | | Myocardial infarction, or heart attack, occurs when the blood flow to the heart muscles stops or is reduced sufficiently for long enough to cause cell death. | | | Owing to the high background risk of myocardial infarction in women with hypertension, and to the possible enhanced risk of myocardial infarction in such women from the use of combined oral contraceptives, women with known hypertension should be prescribed oral contraception only after careful clinical assessment. |
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http://www.reproline.jhu.edu/english/6read/6issues/6progress/prog46_b.htm
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| | Detection of Myocardial Necrosis/Acute Myocardial Infarction |
| | Tc-glucurate which produces positive results within an hour after acute myocardial infarction and this technique may prove to be useful in patients with chest pains but nondiagnostic ECG or enzyme changes. | | | With both these 2 tracers, positive results are obtained only 24-48 hours after acute infarction and therefore, the clinical utility of these techniques have been limited. | | | The main indication being patients with equivocal diagnosis of acute infarction or those who arrive late to the hospital and in whom the enzymes changes may have been missed (Figure 9). |
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http://webcampus.med.drexel.edu/cme/medicine/ncardiac/ami.htm
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| | Complications of acute myocardial infarction: |
| | Acute ventricular septal rupture can occur usually several days following the acute infarction, due to softening of the necrotic portion of the septum. | | | Pericarditis pain is distinguishable from infarct pain because of its pleuritic nature, radiation to the left trapezius ridge, and the associated low-grade fever and pericardial friction rub. | | | Complications of acute M.I. occur in a time-dependent manner, and can be directly related to the anatomy of the coronary artery blood supply. |
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http://www.brown.edu/Courses/Bio_281-cardio/cardio/handout4.htm
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| | Myocardial Infarction |
| | Angina pectoris- a symptom complex of IHD characterized by paroxysmal attacks of chest pain, usually substernal or precordial, caused by myocardial ischemia that falls short of inducing infarction. | | | Occlusive intracoronary thrombus- a thrombus overlying an ulcerated or fissured stenotic plaque causes 90% of transmural acute myocardial infarctions. | | | Cardiac troponin I in the diagnosis of myocardial injury and infarction. |
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http://www-medlib.med.utah.edu/WebPath/TUTORIAL/MYOCARD/MYOCARD.html
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| | Acute Myocardial Infarction: |
| | According to Dipiro, CAD is the leading process that creates an acute mycocardial infarction. | | | It also must be remembered that the location of the thrombus and the amount of area affected play a vital role in the clinical significance of the infarction. | | | Although ischemia is the lack of O2 from the cells, this condition is reversible, whereas in the event of total occlusion and infarction, the cells undergo necrosis and die. |
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http://pharmacy.ama.ttuhsc.edu/Users/~gardner
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| | Acute Myocardial Infarction |
| | pain associated with myocardial infarction is similar to |
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| | GAP Program - Michigan |
| | Improving Quality of Care for Acute Myocardial Infarction | | | Enhancing Quality of Care for Acute Myocardial Infarction | | | ACC/AHA Guidelines for Management of Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction |
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http://www.acc.org/gap/mi/ami_gap.htm
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| | Myocardial Infarction |
| | Symptoms of the myocardial infarction may include: shortness of breath, tightness in the chest, intense prolonged chest pains, nausea, fainting, intense sweating, and pain in the left shoulder, arm, jaw and back. | | | Since the supply of blood has been obstructed from reaching the region of the heart supplied by this artery, the myocardial cells become ischemic resulting in damage to the heart muscle. | | | The thrombus detaches causing an embolism, obstructing the blood flow through the artery. |
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