In addition to ECG findings, cardiac biomarkers are elevated. Troponin, creatine kinase, and creatine kinase-MB results are positive, but they tend to be less elevated than in an acute myocardial ...

Hypokinesia is a type of movement disorder. It specifically means that your movements have a “decreased amplitude” or aren’t as big as you’d expect them to be. Hypokinesia is the flip side of the term ...

A 61-year-old man in cardiogenic shock was recently transferred to our hospital. Angiography revealed total occlusion of the left anterior descending coronary artery and an 80% ostial stenosis of the ...

The ventricles share a common septum and, therefore, the filling of one influences the compliance of the other. This phenomenon is known as direct diastolic ventricular interaction. The interaction is ...