(HealthDay News) — Myocardial necrosis is common after orthopedic surgery and is associated with increased risk of long-term mortality, according to a study published in the June 15 issue of The ...

February 19, 2009 (Cambridge, United Kingdom) — Occluding the brachial artery to induce ischemic preconditioning in coronary stenting reduces myocardial necrosis as a result of the procedure as well ...

Hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES) is a heterogeneous disorder characterised by persistent, abnormal eosinophil elevation in ...

Myocardial infarction is the major cause of death worldwide. With effective treatment within our grasp, accurate and rapid diagnosis is of major medical and economic importance. With the development ...

Remote ischemic preconditioning, by repeated blood pressure cuff inflation, reduces myonecrosis as assessed by cardiac troponin release following elective percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), ...

Regulated necrosis (necroptosis) and apoptosis are crucially involved in severe cardiac pathological conditions, including myocardial infarction, ischemia-reperfusion injury and heart failure. Whereas ...

While still at Northwestern University Reimer teamed up with Dr Robert Jennings; the two continued their collaboration when Reimer accompanied Jennings to Duke in 1975. Their research, which used a ...

Heart attacks, or acute myocardial infarction (MI), are one of the leading causes of death worldwide. The newly released Canadian Cardiovascular Society Classification of Acute Myocardial Infarction ...

PLASMA and serum enzyme-activity alterations have proved useful as laboratory parameters in the diagnosis of myocardial disease. 1 Among the enzymes employed to reflect myocardial necrosis are ...