Coronary vasospasm can lead to decreased cardiac perfusion and result in acute coronary syndrome. Here is a case of a 49-year-old man presented to the emergency department with epigastric pain and nausea with normal initial electrocardiogram. However, 6 h later, the patient experienced severe chest pain prompting a repeat electrocardiogram demonstrating inferior ST-segment elevation with troponin I levels peaked at 1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: This Clinical Practice Statement aims to provide clinicians with evidence-based guidance for the use of urethral bulking agents (UBAs) in the treatment of stress urinary incontinence (SUI).
Methods: We conducted a structured search of the English literature published from January 1960 to November 2022. Search terms identified studies of both current and historic UBAs.
Aims: This study aims to investigate the trends in the global cardiovascular disease (CVD) burden attributable to smoking from 1990 to 2019.
Methods And Results: Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 was used to analyse the burden of CVD attributable to smoking (i.e.