Abstract Background Cardiac microvascular obstruction (MVO) is a frequent injury of the myocardial microcirculation after successful recanalisation of the occluded coronary artery in myocardial infarction. At least in part, MVO is caused by embolised microthrombi of less than 200 µm diameter [1]. MVO leads to hypoperfusion of the myocardium and negatively affects patient outcomes. However,...
The simultaneous beeps of multiple pagers and the overhead announcement signalled the ominous. The large team overpowered the room inhabited by the unmoving, corpse-like patient. Fresh-faced workers stood by to take over chest compressions as others secured the airway. The attending physician orchestrated this symphony, a desperate call of life back into the body. With each forceful compressive...