In the past few decades, The Spanish Society of Cardiology, and in particular, its Ischemic Heart Disease and Acute Cardiovascular Care Section, has made a notable contribution by creating registries to record the reality of heart disease and its treatment and prognosis in Spain.The Society has participated in or published registries in all areas of cardiology, and its studies on ischemic heart...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have shown that from 1965 to 1996, coronary heart disease was a frequent natural cause of death among world leaders. OBJECTIVE To assess incidence of and death from coronary heart disease among world leaders and to determine the effect of this disease on office-holding ability. DESIGN Archive search of worldwide English-language and translated press and media rep...

The novel coronavirus infection, COVID-19, is a highly contagious viral disease associated with acute, severe respiratory syndrome, which based on the development of pronounced thrombo-inflammatory syndrome. As number patients COVID-19 increased, heart damage has been reported, especially in and critical COVID-19. This review describes role angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 receptor regulation en...

BACKGROUND Chest pain raises concern for the possibility of coronary heart disease. Scoring methods have been developed to identify coronary heart disease in emergency settings, but not in primary care. METHODS Data were collected from a multicenter Swiss clinical cohort study including 672 consecutive patients with chest pain, who had visited one of 59 family practitioners' offices. Using de...

M e t h o d s Enterolactone was measured by time-resolved fluoroimmunoassay in serum from 167 men who had an average 7·7 years of follow-up to an acute coronary event and from 167 control men. Both cases and controls were from a cohort of 2005 men who had no clinical coronary heart disease (CHD) at baseline. The controls were matched for age, examination year, and residence. Acute coronary even...

Two cases of acute myocardial infarction occurred in association with myocarditis, which was confirmed by biopsy. The first patient suffered an anteroseptal and the second patient an inferior wall myocardial infarction shortly after an acute viral illness. In both patients, coronary angiography showed normal coronary arteries, and right ventricular endomyocardial biopsy confirmed myocarditis. H...

Left main coronary artery occlusion is a very rare entity that often results in death. It usually manifests as acute myocardial infarction (MI) with cardiogenic shock and fatal arrhythmias. Here, we report the case of a 19 year-old patient who presented with acute anterior MI secondary to left main coronary artery thrombosis. There were no classical risk factors for coronary heart disease in th...

Coronary embolism from a prosthetic heart valve is a rare but remarkable cause of acute coronary syndrome. There is no definite management of an entity like this. Here we report a case of 54-year-old male with a history of rheumatic heart disease with dual prosthetic heart valve and atrial fibrillation who developed chest pain from acute myocardial infarction. The laboratory values showed inade...