Pages tagged: heart attack

A team of researchers at Rice University and the Texas Heart Institute (THI) have received a prestigious National Science Foundation grant...

Severe fatigue is a common side effect of metoprolol (trade name, Toprol XL), and that should be considered as a...

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

Yasmin, The tearing sensation with movement sounds like a musculo-skeletal pain and not aortic aneurysm. Blood pressure is within normal...

There is some statistical evidence that certain early stages of myocardial injury (as in a heart attack) respond poorly to...

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....

1. No, it will not affect your LVEF. 2. Many factors are involved in determining your future health, the most...

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

I am not sure why the diet book would limit avocados to twice per week for any condition. It would...

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