myocardial infarction

Raised blood lipids are a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases such as myocardial infarction and stroke.

Anti-inflammatory therapy to treat patients following acute myocardial infarction is an exciting prospect that deserves further translational studies, report investigators in The American Journal of Pathology, published by Elsevier.

When this is disrupted, it leads to worse cardiovascular disease outcomes including myocardial infarction and heart failure.

Heart disease remains a leading cause of death worldwide, with myocardial infarction, also known as a heart attack, causing irreparable damage to cardiac muscle cells.

The team manipulated the model to simulate conditions of right ventricular dysfunction, including pulmonary hypertension and myocardial infarction.