Diagnosis. Infective endocarditis resulting in thromboembolic unilateral renal infarction. Management. The patient was started on anticoagulation therapy with low-molecular-weight heparin and ...

Box 1 Differential diagnosis of acute renal infarction. ARI is a rare disease that is often misdiagnosed. Patients with diseases predisposing them to hypercoagulable states, and those presenting ...

People with kidney disease undergo balloon dilation treatment after myocardial infarction less frequently, and therefore have a poorer prognosis, researchers say. People with kidney disease ...

One third of all patients treated for myocardial infarction have moderately impaired renal function. Myocardial infarction can be treated by improving the blood flow using either balloon dilation ...

The presence of mild-to-moderate renal impairment after myocardial infarction increases the rate of adverse outcomes at 30 and 180 days. 6,9,18–20 Because previous studies used smaller cohorts ...

In patients who have acute myocardial infarction with cardiogenic shock, early revascularization of the culprit artery by means of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) improves outcomes.