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 have ...

Background and Purpose: Since 2000, when these guidelines were last issued, there have been rapid advances in antiplatelet, antithrombotic, and cholesterol-lowering therapy, along with further ...

Mrs. D is a 58-year-old woman who presents to the emergency department because of a 2-hour episode of tightness in her chest, which had spontaneously resolved 1 hour before her arrival at the hospital ...

Unstable angina, or acute coronary syndrome, is a type of chest pain or discomfort that typically occurs when a person is resting. Unstable angina is a medical emergency, and people should seek ...

Many patients (and perhaps physicians) are confused as to how best to utilize personal ECG devices. I received this question illustrating such confusion from a reader recently: "I first came across ...

The most serious form of the acute coronary syndrome, ST segment elevation myocardial infarction, or STEMI, most often results from complete thrombotic occlusion of a major epicardial coronary artery.

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the most common cause of death in the UK. It is a progressive disease. The first presenting symptom is often stable angina (pain in the chest on exertion), which may ...