Increased frequencies of cardiac catheterization and percutaneous coronary intervention were seen in patients with NSTE-ACS, who experienced significantly decreased rates of in-hospital death ...

When compared with clopidogrel, ticagrelor was associated with significant reductions in mortality among patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS), without increasing the overall incidence of ...

Though ACS is usually associated with coronary thrombosis, it can also be associated with cocaine use. Cardiac chest pain can also be precipitated by anemia, bradycardias (excessively slow heart ...

There are multiple causes of chest pains, and when the diagnosis is in question, a cardiac etiology must be assumed initially due to the life-threatening nature of ACS. A diagnosis of “unstable ...

Researchers have found in a new study that stress hyperglycemia ratio (SHR) is highly correlated with the progression of ...

An acute coronary syndrome occurs when atherosclerotic coronary ... that result in myocardial necrosis as identified by elevated cardiac biomarkers (see Cardiac Biomarkers) with no ST segment ...

Of the 36 patients with LBBB, 14 were diagnosed with ACS, 13 with other cardiac diagnoses, and 9 with noncardiac diagnoses. Thirty-two of the 36 patients underwent cardiac catheterizations.