To study the incidence of left-ventricular thrombosis after transmural myocardial infarction,
we performed serial two-dimensional echocardiography in 70 consecutive patients. Thirty-five …

This is a prospective study of 500 consecutive patients having coronary artery bypass surgery;
mean hospital charge from time of surgery to discharge was $11,900 ± 12,700. Multiple …

Background— In Europe, interhospital transfer of ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI)
patients for primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) from non–PCI-capable (…

Observations made in detecting left ventricular thrombus with two dimensional echocardiography
in 25 patients are reviewed. In 20 patients thrombus was documented on angiography, …

Flecainide acetate, a new antiarrhythmic agent, was given orally to 11 hospitalized patients
with chronic high-frequency ventricular ectopic depolarizations. Drug effectiveness was …

BACKGROUND: Stress cardiomyopathy (SCM) is a newly described reversible cardiomyopathy
of largely unclear etiology. We studied SCM in a large cohort to gain further insights. …

We assessed the use of echocardiography in the evaluation of stroke by recording M-mode
and two-dimensional (2D) echocardiograms in 100 consecutive hospitalized patients. Of the …

A consecutive series of 184 patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) received thrombolytic
therapy. The first 63 were treated in the catheterization laboratory with intracoronary …

A consecutive series of 78 patients having percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty
for single vessel coronary artery disease and 85 patients having single vessel coronary …

In an effort to determine the effect of ethanol ingestion on myocardial function in the domestic
turkey, a group of Nicholas birds were fed 5% ethanol (25% of calories) for the first 56 days …