Heart Rupture, Post-Infarction

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Adjunctive transcutaneous ultrasound with thrombolysis: results of the PLUS (Perfusion by ThromboLytic and UltraSound) trial. 
  • Adverse effects of corticosteroids on the cardiovascular system. 
  • Cardiac rupture after myocardial infarction: new insights from murine models. 
  • Cardiac rupture, mortality and the timing of thrombolytic therapy: a meta-analysis. 
  • Clinical characteristics and in-hospital outcomes of patients with cardiogenic shock undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery: insights from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons National Cardiac Database. 
  • Commentary: Left ventricular free wall rupture: Patch and unload? 
  • Distance from the coronary ostium to the culprit lesion in acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction and its implications regarding the potential prevention of proximal plaque rupture. 
  • Factors related to heart rupture in acute coronary syndromes in the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events. 
  • Intraoperative device closure of postinfarction ventricular septal defects. 
  • The utility of echocardiography in the diagnostic strategy of postinfarction ventricular septal rupture: a comparison of two-dimensional echocardiography versus Doppler color flow imaging.