WASHINGTON, DC (updated) — A "clinically meaningful" definition of MI following PCI or CABG is urgently needed to replace the arbitrarily chosen "universal definition" proposed in recent years that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

To successfully look for life beyond our own solar system, astrobiologists desperately need a viable definition of life. Even after a century or so of debate, they lack a viable universal definition ...

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 ...