Myocardial infarction (MI) affects millions of people worldwide. MI causes massive cardiac cell death and heart function decrease. However, heart tissue cannot effectively regenerate by itself. While stem cell therapy has been considered an effective approach for regeneration, the efficacy of cardiac stem cell therapy remains low due to inferior cell engraftment in the infarcted region. This is...

Motivational interviewing (MI) is a promising treatment for heavy drinking. Client change talk (CT), a critical component of MI, has been associated with differential brain activation. The goal of this study was to begin to deconstruct how and why CT may affect the brain. Specifically, we sought to determine whether simply repeating statements in favor of change would cause differential brain a...

“Mirror neurons” are visuomotor neurons which are activated both when the individual is observing and performing an action. These cells were originally discovered in the ventral premotor cortex (area F5) of monkeys by Rizzolatti and collegues. Mirror neurons directly match observed actions and their motor counterparts and probably have a role in action understanding, as well as learning and imi...

BACKGROUND Global longitudinal systolic strain (GLS) has recently been demonstrated to be a superior prognosticator to conventional echocardiographic measures in patients after myocardial infarction (MI). The aim of this study was to evaluate the prognostic value of regional longitudinal myocardial deformation in comparison to GLS, conventional echocardiography and clinical information. METHO...

OBJECTIVES This study was designed to examine whether ST segment elevation in posterior chest leads (V7 to V9) during acute inferior myocardial infarction (MI) identifies patients with a concomitant posterior infarction and whether these patients might benefit more from thrombolysis. BACKGROUND Because the posterior wall is faced by none of the 12 standard electrocardiographic (ECG) leads, th...

BACKGROUND Right ventricular (RV) involvement increases mortality and morbidity in inferior myocardial infarction (MI). There are sparse data on the usefulness of pulsed tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) in the diagnosis of RV dysfunction in ST segment elevation MI (STEMI) treated by primary percutaneous coronary intervention (pPCI). AIM To evaluate the diagnostic and prognostic significance of RV...

Answer: 683 A 55-year-old male patient was admitted to an emergency department of a secondary care hospital with left forearm pain and numbness of fingers lasting for 6 h. He did not state any kind of chest pain and has not had any cardiac disease history and risk factors except smoking for 30 years. Electrocardiography (ECG) demonstrated negative P waves and ST-segment elevation in inferior le...

Dear Editor, Acute myocardial infarction (MI) involving the right ventricle is a rare event.1 Right ventricular myocardial infarction (RVMI) is associated with infarction of the inferior wall of the left ventricle, occurring in more than one third of such cases.1-3 Patent foramen ovale (PFO) is an anatomic inter-atrial communication with the potential risk for shunting of blood. This usually cl...