Acute Myocardial Infarction
Metformin and the risk of lactic acidosis
"Can a patient use metformin after a heart attack (after 12 years of using metformin) assuming the patient has good renal function? My question is if metformin should be avoided forever after an acute myocardial infarction or just temporarily withheld after the heart attack in a patient with an adequate renal and liver function (also without congestive heart failure or hypers... Read more »
Expert & Community Posts
What’s So Unstable About Unstable Angina?
By Dr. William Davis , Health Expert...combination of the two.) Heart attack, or more properly, acute myocardial infarction, occurs... Read more »
Heart Protecting Effects of Coenzyme Q10
By Melanie Thomassian , Health Expert...us from free radical damage, similar to that of vitamin E. It is thought that CoQ10 levels... Read more »
Does My Temperament/Personality Play a Role in My Risk for Heart Disease?
By Lisa Nelson , Health Expert...disorder and risk of new onset coronary heart disease, acute myocardial infarction, and cardiac... Read more »
Coronary Angioplasty, Stents, and Other Relics of the Paleolithic Age
By Dr. William Davis , Health Expert...hospital personnel in scrubs, the other a patient beaming with satisfaction proclaiming Hospital... Read more »
The Weirdest Thing
By Amy Tenderich , Health ExpertReprinted with permission of Amy Tenderich of DiabetesMine.com "Mom, what's the weirdest thing... Read more »
Health Guide
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...Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 1999 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction). Circulation. 2004;110:588-636. Braunwald E, Artman EM,... Read more »Unstable angina
...cause sudden death. Complications Complications of unstable angina include progression to an acute myocardial infarction (heart attack). Calling your health care provider Call... Read more »Hypertensive heart disease
...and control the heart disease. Treatment of heart disease depends on the conditions that are present (acute myocardial infarction, angina, heart failure, and so on). Common medications include... Read more »Heart Attack Symptoms and Warning Signs
...form and totally stop blood flow in a coronary artery, resulting in a heart attack (also called an acute myocardial infarction or MI). Irreversible injury to the heart muscle usually occurs if... Read more »Heart Attack and Acute Coronary Syndrome: References
...2006 Mar 21; [Epub ahead of print]James AH, Jamison MG, Biswas MS, Brancazio LR, Swamy GK, Myers ER. Acute myocardial infarction in pregnancy: a United States population-based study. Circulation.... Read more »Images
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