BACKGROUND: Previous research suggests that exposures to air pollution and nonoptimal temperatures are associated with a ...

What's New Since 2002? The primary objective in selecting a treatment strategy in UA/NSTEMI is to choose an approach likely to yield the best long-term clinical outcome. Two treatment pathways ...

Still, the ideal treatment of cocaine-associated NSTEMI isn’t clear: there are no randomized, placebo-controlled trials in this setting. In 2014, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and AHA ...

The American Heart Association (AHA) and American College of Cardiology (ACC) have issued new performance and quality measures for the treatment of patients with STEMI and NSTEMI, abandoning some ...

Several STEMI/NSTEMI performance measures have been proposed by ACC/AHA, and endorsed by multiple organizations, to ensure effective, timely, safe, efficient, and patient-centered medical care ...

In November 2009, Effient also was added as a Class I recommended treatment in AHA/ACC/SCAI clinical guidelines for patients with UA or NSTEMI receiving PCI and for patients with ST elevation ...

The authors recommend that aspirin still be regarded as the first line of therapy for patients with unstable angina/NSTEMI and should ... up to 12 months. “The AHA and ACCF constantly update ...

NSTEMI stands for non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction, which is a type of heart attack. Compared to the more common type of heart attack known as STEMI, an NSTEMI is typically less ...

Despite advances in treatment, acute coronarysyndromes (ACS), which consist mainly of ST-segmentelevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) andunstable angina (UA)/non-STEMI (NSTEMI), presentan ...

The American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF) and the American Heart Association (AHA) recently reviewed pivotal trials of the last 5 years and released an update to the 2002 UA/NSTEMI ...