Body Mass Index and Hospital Mortality in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome Receiving Care in a University Hospital by Mercedes Camprubi, Sandra Cabrera, Jordi Sans, Georgina Vidal, Teresa Salvadó, Alfredo Bardají

“…A total of 824 patients with a diagnosis of myocardial infarction or unstable angina were analyzed. Body mass index was an independent factor in hospital mortality (odds ratio 0.739 (IC 95%: 0.597-0.916), P=0.006). …”
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The Wide and Unpredictable Scope of Synthetic Cannabinoids Toxicity by Jose Orsini, Christa Blaak, Eric Tam, Salil Rajayer, Joaquin Morante, Angela Yeh, Ashvin Butala

“…We describe a case of acute hypoxemic/hypercapnic respiratory failure as a consequence of acute congestive heart failure (CHF) developed from myocardial stunning resulting from a non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (MI) following the consumption of synthetic cannabinoids.…”
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Chinese and western medicine treatment of myocardial fibrosis drugs by Yuxi Zhu, Yuxi Zhu, Fangmei Zhang, Zhongcheng Li, Yu Zhou, Yi Shu, Jian Ruan, Guo Chen

“…Myocardial fibrosis (MF) is a common pathological manifestation of many cardiovascular diseases, such as myocardial infarction, myocardial ischemia, and sudden cardiac death. …”
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Neurological damages in COVID‐19 patients: Mechanisms and preventive interventions by Sibani Sarkar, Subhajit Karmakar, Malini Basu, Pratyasha Ghosh, Mrinal K Ghosh

“…It is associated with systemic inflammation, myocardial infarction, neurological illness including ischemic strokes (e.g., cardiac and cerebral ischemia), and even death through multi‐organ failure. …”
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Uncommon Occurrences of Air Embolism: Description of Cases and Review of the Literature by Giorgio Berlot, Adriano Rinaldi, Marco Moscheni, Massimo Ferluga, Perla Rossini

“…Whereas in the first patient the gas embolism was associated with only relatively mild digestive symptoms, in the remaining two it caused a massive cerebral ischemia and an extended myocardial infarction, respectively. Despite a hyperbaric oxygen therapy performed timely in each case, only the first patient survived. …”
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Ischemic Postconditioning Mitigates Retinopathy in Tree Shrews with Diabetic Cerebral Ischemia by Ling Zhao, Qiwei Liao, Yueting Zhang, Shufen Tan, Shuqing Li, Tingyu Ke

“…Ischemic postconditioning (PC) is proved to efficiently protect diabetic patients with acute myocardial infarction from ischemia-reperfusion injury. We aimed to explore the protective roles of ischemic PC on diabetic retinopathy in tree shrews with diabetic cerebral ischemia. …”
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Depression Following Thrombotic Cardiovascular Events in Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries: Risk of Morbidity and Mortality by Christopher M. Blanchette, Linda Simoni-Wastila, Fadia T. Shaya, Denise Orwig, Jason Noel, Bruce Stuart

“…Depression and antidepressant use may independently increase the risk of acute myocardial infarction and mortality in adults. However, no studies have looked at the effect of depression on a broader thrombotic event outcome, assessed antidepressant use, or evaluated elderly adults. …”
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Edoxaban Monotherapy in Nonvalvular Atrial Fibrillation Patients with Coronary Artery Disease by Daisuke Fukamachi, Yasuo Okumura, Naoya Matsumoto, Eizo Tachibana, Koji Oiwa, Makoto Ichikawa, Hironori Haruta, Kazumiki Nomoto, Ken Arima, Atsushi Hirayama

“…There was no incidence of a myocardial infarction, stent thrombosis, unstable angina requiring revascularization, ischemic stroke, systemic stroke, or hemorrhagic stroke in either of the groups. …”
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METTL3 regulates autophagy of hypoxia-induced cardiomyocytes by targeting ATG7 by Linnan Li, Hao Cheng, Yufei Zhou, Di Zhao, Xiaoxue Zhang, Yajun Wang, Jianying Ma, Junbo Ge

“…Here, we investigated the impact of METTL3, a key m6A methyltransferase, on the autophagy regulation in ischemic and hypoxic cardiomyocytes, as well as in mice following acute myocardial infarction (AMI). METTL3 negatively regulated autophagy in cardiomyocytes under ischemia and hypoxia conditions. …”
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Рerioperative period of high-risk patients with coronary artery disease by O.K. Gogayeva

“…All patients had hemodynamically significant coronary artery stenosis, which required CABG. Acute myocardial infarction at the time of admission was diagnosed in 12 (6.1 %) patients, unstable angina – in 72 (37.1 %) patients. …”
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A Systematic Literature Review of Three Stenting Strategies for Bifurcation Lesions in Coronary Artery Disease by Larragem Parsley-Raines, Dominique M. Brandt, Dillon L. Carr, Sabrina Uhry, Eileen S. Alexander, Stephanie A. Donauer, Peter J. Mallow

“…Outcomes of interest reported were target vessel failure in 2 studies, major adverse cardiac event (MACE) (cardiac death, all myocardial infarction, ischemic driven target legion revascularization TLR) in 5 studies. …”
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IFN Regulatory Factor 1 Mediates Macrophage Pyroptosis Induced by Oxidized Low-Density Lipoprotein in Patients with Acute Coronary Syndrome by Min Guo, Rui Yan, Hongmei Yao, Liqin Duan, Meng Sun, Zheng Xue, Yongping Jia

“…Patients with stable angina, unstable angina, acute myocardial infarction, and clinical presentation of chest pain were enrolled. …”
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In Vitro Differentiation of First Trimester Human Umbilical Cord Perivascular Cells into Contracting Cardiomyocyte-Like Cells by Peter Szaraz, Matthew Librach, Leila Maghen, Farwah Iqbal, Tanya A. Barretto, Shlomit Kenigsberg, Andrée Gauthier-Fisher, Clifford L. Librach

“…Myocardial infarction (MI) causes an extensive loss of heart muscle cells and leads to congestive heart disease (CAD), the leading cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. …”
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Plastics of the left ventricle aneurysm with minimally invasive multivessel coronary artery bypass grafting by V.M. Demianenko, O.D. Babliak, D.Ye. Babliak, O.S. Stohov, E.A. Melnyk, K.A. Revenko, L.V. Pidgayna

“…This makes possible to broaden the horizons of minimally invasive multivessel coronary artery bypass grafting usage in complications of the myocardial infarction.…”
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Incidence and Predictors of Outcome in the Treatment of In-Stent Restenosis with Drug-Eluting Balloons, a Real-Life Single-Centre Study by Kyle Murnaghan, Helen Bishop, Navjot Sandila, Bakhtiar Kidwai, Lawrence Title, Ata Ur Rehman Quraishi, Catherine Kells, Hussein Beydoun, Osama Elkhateeb

“…To determine the one-year and five-year occurrence and prognosticators of major adverse cardiac events (MACE: composition of all-cause death, myocardial infarction, target vessel revascularization, and vessel thrombosis), mortality, and target lesion revascularization (TLR) in patients with in-stent restenosis (ISR) treated with drug-eluting balloons (DEBs). …”
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Downregulation of CD4+LAP+ and CD4+CD25+ Regulatory T Cells in Acute Coronary Syndromes by Ying-zhong Lin, Shan-he Lu, Zheng-de Lu, Ying Huang, Ying Shi, Ling Liu, Xiao-yan Wang, Qing-wei Ji

“…Regulatory T (Treg) cells play a protective role in atherosclerosis prone models and are related to the onset of acute coronary syndromes (ACS, including non-ST-elevation ACS (NSTEACS) and ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction (STEAMI)). CD4+LAP+ Treg cells are a novel subset of Tregs that have been found to ameliorate atherosclerosis in ApoE-/- mice, and these cells also exist in humans. …”
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A new perspective on cardiovascular function and dysfunction during endurance exercise: identifying the primary cause of cardiovascular risk by Amine Souissi, Ismail Dergaa, Samia Ernez Hajri, Karim Chamari, Helmi Ben Saad

“…Importantly, we clearly revealed for the first time that endothelial damage, vasoconstriction, and blood coagulation (inducing thrombosis) are potentially the primary factors of cardiovascular dysfunction and myocardial infarction during and/or following endurance exercise.…”
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Intramyocardial Dissection following Postinfarction Ventricular Wall Rupture Contained by Surrounding Postoperative Adhesions by Abdulkadir Ercan, Orcun Gurbuz, Gencehan Kumtepe, Hakan Ozkan, Ilker Hasan Karal, Yusuf Velioglu, Serdar Ener

“…She was diagnosed with an acute inferoposterior myocardial infarction and underwent emergency coronary angiography revealing spontaneous recanalization of the right coronary artery. …”
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Successful Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Atherosclerotic Coronary Lesion with Anomalous Origin of the Right Coronary Artery by Junji Matsuda, Takashi Ikenouchi, Giichi Nitta, Shunichi Kato, Kazuya Murata, Miki Kanoh, Yukihiro Inamura, Nobutaka Kato, Tomomasa Takamiya, Ken Negi, Akira Sato, Tsunehiro Yamato, Yutaka Matsumura, Junichi Nitta

“…Congenital coronary artery anomalies, including anomalous origin of a coronary artery, can manifest as life-threatening conditions, such as myocardial infarction or arrhythmia, and may even lead to sudden death associated with specific congenital anatomical features. …”
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Impact of Visit-to-Visit Triglyceride-Glucose Index Variability on the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly by Fei Chen, Ying Pan, Ziqing Liu, Rong Huang, Jing Wang, Jian Shao, Yaqin Gong, Xiyi Sun, Xiaobo Jiang, Weihao Wang, Zhaoqiang Li, Shao Zhong, Qi Pan, Kaixin Zhou

“…CVD events were identified from the chronic disease registry or follow-up database and included myocardial infarction, angina, coronary, and stroke. Multivariate Cox regression was used to examine the correlation between TyG variability and incident CVD. …”
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