Credit: Getty Images. Researchers assessed the demographics associated with the admission of acute myocardial infarction and evaluated the differences between rheumatoid arthritis and gout and ...

A heart attack, also known as myocardial infarction, occurs when blood flow to a portion of the heart suddenly gets blocked, typically by a clot in a coronary artery. Without oxygen-rich blood, the ...

Patients born with heart defects experience their first acute heart attack at a significantly earlier age than others. This ...

Most trials that have shown a benefit of beta-blocker treatment after myocardial infarction included patients with large myocardial infarctions and were conducted in an era before modern ...

Dr. Patrick Malecha (Medicine): A 69-year-old man with a history of myocardial infarction, ischemic cardiomyopathy, and an implantable cardioverter–defibrillator (ICD) was evaluated because of dyspnea ...