ALLMedicine™ Chest Pain Center

Sep 2nd, 2020 - The long-term association between serum albumin-to-creatinine ratio (sACR) and poor patient outcomes in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) remains unclear. This study aimed to determine whether sACR was a predictor of poor long-term survival in pat...

Aug 18th, 2020 - Pericardial fat (PF) has been suggested to directly act on cardiomyocytes, leading to diastolic dysfunction. The aim of this study was to investigate whether a higher PF volume is associated with a lower diastolic function in healthy subjects. 254...

Aug 8th, 2020 - Thrombin, a key enzyme of the clotting system, is involved in thrombus formation, platelet activation, and atherosclerosis, thereby possessing a central role in the pathogenesis of ischemic heart disease. Studies have shown an association between ...

Jun 21st, 2020 - Early post-percutaneous coronary intervention chest pain (EPPCP) appears to be a common clinical phenomenon. EPPCP has not been fully explained or studied in the literature despite the abundance of clinical trials on percutaneous coronary interven...

Jun 10th, 2020 - Emergent cardiac catheterization laboratory activation (CCLA) for patients with suspected ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is employed to expedite acute revascularization (AR). The incidence of false-positive CCLA, in which AR is not per...

Nov 5th, 2018 - Chronic chest pain (CCP) of a cardiac etiology is a common clinical problem. The diagnosis and classification of the case of chest pain has rapidly evolved providing the clinician with multiple cardiac imaging strategies. Though scintigraphy and r...

Oct 31st, 2018 - Chronic chest pain (CCP) with low to intermediate probability of coronary artery disease (CAD) can arise from cardiac and noncardiac etiologies. While there are multiple potential noncardiac causes of CCP, such as costochondritis, arthritic or deg...

Apr 30th, 2017 - Pulmonary embolism (PE) remains a common and important clinical condition that cannot be accurately diagnosed on the basis of signs, symptoms, and history alone. The diagnosis of PE has been facilitated by technical advancements and multidetector.

Oct 31st, 2014 - These guidelines are intended to apply to adult patients with stable known or suspected ischemic heart disease (IHD), including those with new-onset chest pain (i. e.

Sep 2nd, 2020 - The long-term association between serum albumin-to-creatinine ratio (sACR) and poor patient outcomes in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) remains unclear. This study aimed to determine whether sACR was a predictor of poor long-term survival in pat...

Aug 18th, 2020 - Pericardial fat (PF) has been suggested to directly act on cardiomyocytes, leading to diastolic dysfunction. The aim of this study was to investigate whether a higher PF volume is associated with a lower diastolic function in healthy subjects. 254...

Aug 8th, 2020 - Thrombin, a key enzyme of the clotting system, is involved in thrombus formation, platelet activation, and atherosclerosis, thereby possessing a central role in the pathogenesis of ischemic heart disease. Studies have shown an association between ...

Jun 21st, 2020 - Early post-percutaneous coronary intervention chest pain (EPPCP) appears to be a common clinical phenomenon. EPPCP has not been fully explained or studied in the literature despite the abundance of clinical trials on percutaneous coronary interven...

Jun 10th, 2020 - Emergent cardiac catheterization laboratory activation (CCLA) for patients with suspected ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is employed to expedite acute revascularization (AR). The incidence of false-positive CCLA, in which AR is not per...

Oct 31st, 2018 - Chronic chest pain (CCP) with low to intermediate probability of coronary artery disease (CAD) can arise from cardiac and noncardiac etiologies. While there are multiple potential noncardiac causes of CCP, such as costochondritis, arthritic or deg...

Jul 8th, 2018 - A study reevaluating genes reported to be associated with Brugada syndrome challenged the validity of all but one. (Circulation) The American College of Cardiology renamed its ACTION Registry under the National Cardiovascular Data Registry umbrell...

Mar 29th, 2018 - Patients with Hodgkin lymphoma have a 15% to 40% likelihood of pulmonary involvement, such as a solitary lung mass or cavitary lung lesion. But clinicians at Bassett Healthcare in Cooperstown, New York, were faced with a rare case of another prese.

Apr 8th, 2013 - Action Points Note that there has been an idea that ischemic coronary artery disease somehow presents differently in women than in men. This study shows that angina-type symptoms are remarkably similar among men and women with obstructive CAD. Con...

Jun 7th, 2010 - Action Points Explain to patients that this report describes an off-label use of an FDA-approved drug. Note that while this was a randomized trial, it was a very small study with limited follow-up. An old, cheap gout drug may be an effective treat...