(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 ...

Cell death is a fundamental process involved in development, aging and demise and has been classified into distinct forms, including necrosis, apoptosis and autophagy 1,2. Whereas apoptosis is ...

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 ...

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), ...

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 ...

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 ...

Myocardial infarction (MI) – more regularly known as a heart attack – is an acute phenomenon initiated by the interruption of blood supply to regions of the heart, causing myocardial necrosis.