Pages tagged: myocardial infarction

Dear Maureen: The EKG has first a computer interpretation. I often correct that interpretation based on what I know about...

Dear Margaret, In my opinion, this is a problem of semantics. I don’t know exactly what is meant by ‘impaired...

While these ECG results COULD truly signify an old [previous] myocardial infarction, i.e., heart attack/MI, this result also could be...

It is a condition where the patient is having severe heart pain but the EKG does not show any changes....

The above is not totally correct. The risk of a single bypass to the diagonal is > the benefit. If...

This question comes up frequently, almost on a daily basis in patient care with regards to the ECG: A patient...

Studies have led to better therapies and more information about the heart after a heart attack or myocardial infarction (MI)....

How you can survive a heart attack and help educate others. About one third of Americans who have a heart...

About 735,000 Americans have heart attacks every year. In fact, it is estimated that about every 34 seconds, somebody in...