When assessing patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) traditional risk factors such as diabetes mellitus, hypertension, dyslipidemia, smoking, stress, physical inactivity, obesity, and family history are not found in 20% of the patients, and up to 40% of patients have only 1 risk factor. Considering the high prevalence of CAD and the fact that despite the numerous efforts made in primary prevention, the disease still has a high incidence, identifying markers that can predict at-risk patients is a goal that […]

Many ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients seek care in hospitals without percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) capability and cannot be submitted to PCI within the guideline-recommended timelines, and, instead, they are often submitted to fibrinolysis as the initial reperfusion therapy. Rapid, simple and readily available bedside measures are of utmost importance for timely assessment of the efficacy of reperfusion therapy early after fibrinolysis in acute STEMI, in order to immediately identify the ones who require rescue PCI., In an editorial […]