St-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction

The Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions has released a consensus statement on how catheterization laboratories should manage the technical aspects of PCI for patients with STEMI.

Despite significant decline in heart attacks since 2004, inequities in STEMI management and mortality by age, gender, income and race, speakers reported.

ATLANTA — A system of standalone chest pain units set up in Karachi, Pakistan was associated with good metrics and outcomes for patients with STEMI who could not easily get to a hospital.

ATLANTA — In the DanGer-Shock trial, routine use of a microaxial flow pump, on top of standard care, led to a lower risk for death compared with standard care only for treatment of patients with STEMI and cardiogenic shock.

Hemorrhagic MI is associated with poor outcomes after PCI for STEMI and can be diagnosed via troponin kinetics, not necessarily requiring cardiac MRI, researchers reported at Cardiovascular Research Technologies.

Despite larger declines in STEMI and non-STEMI events from 2011 to 2018, women received proportionately fewer revascularization procedures and had a higher STEMI mortality rate vs. men, researchers reported.

Among patients hospitalized for acute MI, those with diabetes had greater risk for death than those without it, according to data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities cohort.

Among patients with STEMI in India, women were less likely to receive PCI and more likely to die at 1 year than men, researchers reported in JACC: Asia.

A Clinton-era initiative to reduce racial/ethnic health disparities may have helped to minimize inequities in PCI usage and mortality after STEMI among Black, white and Hispanic patients in New Jersey, researchers reported.

High-dose oral colchicine during reperfusion and for 5 days failed to reduce infarct size in patients with STEMI presenting to hospital, according to a new study published in Circulation.