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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

Clinical evaluation alone is sufficient for determining whether patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with chest pain, negative biomarkers, and a nonischemic ECG are having an acute ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...