Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm a medical journalist covering cardiology news. The third universal definition of MI establishes the troponin levels required ...

August 28, 2012 (Munich, Germany) — An international group of experts has released a third universal definition of MI, which builds on an earlier iteration and establishes the levels of cardiac ...

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators collaborated with a global group of acute pediatric critical illness experts to reach a consensus definition of the condition. Research on how to ...

The program "The Universal Definition of MI & Troponin, Clearing the confusion" is intended to review the recently released Third Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction and aims to familiarize ...

MUNICH, Germany—The fourth iteration of the universal definition of MI, released to coincide with the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Congress 2018 here last week, makes clear that not every ...

As recently as 40 years ago, biomarkers used for the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (MI) were nonspecific and assays were not highly reproducible from one laboratory to another. This led to ...

A new, evidence-based definition of periprocedural myocardial infarction (MI) has been proposed by the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) in an effort to link the ...

The original WHO definition of myocardial infarction (MI) was revised in 2000 and further refined in 2007. Central to the new universal definition of MI was the use of the highly sensitive and ...