WASHINGTON, DC — A large, single-center, retrospective study of patients who presented to the emergency department with acute chest pain and low- to intermediate-risk of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) ...

Study Objectives: The clinical manifestations of acute coronary syndromes (ACSs) vary, and patients present frequently with symptoms other than chest pain. In this analysis, a large contemporary ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The American College of Cardiology Solution Set Oversight Committee has issued an expert consensus decision ...

Chest pain can signal something serious, and it’s often an emergency. But discomfort in your chest area can also be a sign of a minor annoyance. That means that when you notice it, you may be ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Time from chest pain onset to ED presentation did not differ between patients who had a prior acute MI and those ...

When a patient presents with chest pain, follow this doctor’s guidelines to quickly reach an accurate diagnosis and initiate life-saving treatment. For some time, cardiologists have called MIs and ...

In patients presenting with chest pain, a high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT) algorithm is effective at both diagnosing acute MI and ruling it out within 1 hour, according to a study ...

In a new publication from Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications, Wen-Yuan Ding, Jia-Min Li, Fei Zheng, Li-Li Wang, Xin-Yi Wei and Guo-Hua Li from Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital, Ji'nan, ...

What was causing ongoing severe acute chest pain in this 65-year-old patient with no cardiovascular risk factors or prior heart problems? That was the conundrum for Stefano Savonitto, MD, and ...

Heart attacks kill more seniors by far than any other disease. “Atherosclerosis” is the cause; it means “artery hardening.” First, fatty deposits, or “atheromas,” appear in the artery lining. This ...

Heart attacks kill more seniors by far than any other disease. “Atherosclerosis” is the cause; it means “artery hardening.” First, fatty deposits, or “atheromas,” appear in the artery lining. This ...