Myocardial ischemia is a drop in blood flow to the heart. Myocardial infarction, or heart attack, occurs when death or damage occurs in the muscle tissue of the heart due to low blood supply. The ...

Cardiac-biomarker elevation before percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is primarily due to spontaneous rupture of vulnerable plaques, epicardial thrombosis, and subsequent myocardial injury. In ...

The benefit of beta-blockers after myocardial infarction in patients with a preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is unclear. We conducted a meta-analysis at the individual-patient level ...