A 56-year-old woman with COVID-19 presents to a rural emergency department with complaints of severe substernal chest pain.

The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association have updated guidelines for the management of unstable angina and non-ST-segment elevation MI (NSTEMI). The 95-page document ...

March 29, 2011 (Washington, DC and Dallas, Texas) — The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association have updated the 2007 Guidelines for the Management of Patients with ...

The American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association have jointly released revised Guidelines for the Management of Patients with Unstable Angina (UA)/Non-ST- Elevation Myocardial ...

Wright RS, Anderson JL, Adams CD, et al. 2011 ACCF/AHA focused update of the guidelines for the management of patients with unstable angina/non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (Updating the 2007 ...

Aspirin is still the first line of therapy for patients with unstable angina or non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (NSTEMI), and ticagrelor can be used in place of clopidogrel or prasugrel ...

This guideline covers the early and longer-term (rehabilitation) management of acute coronary syndromes. These include ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), non-ST-segment elevation ...

The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA), in collaboration with other societies, released a full guideline on the management of patients with ACS on Thursday, ...

Ticagrelor (Brilinta, AstraZeneca) gains equal standing with prasugrel (Effient, Lilly) and clopdiogrel in the newly released focused update of the ACCF/AHA guidelines for unstable angina and non ...

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The severe systemic inflammatory processes and hypercoagulability occurring with COVID-19 illness increase the risk of atherosclerotic plaque disruption and acute myocardial infarction (AMI).