Background: Cardiovascular diseases, such as acute myocardial infarction, are the main causes of death in the world. The flavonoids present in chocolate can have benefits for people who have risk factors to the development of cardiovascular diseases and have a coadjuvant effect on known therapies. Objective: To analyze the association between chocolate consumption, severity of coronary lesions, risk factors and severity of the first infarction in patients attended at the Cardiology Institute of Santa Catarina and other hospitals in the […]

Introduction Hemodynamic monitoring of individuals with acute myocardial infarction, for evaluation of progression and prognosis of the patient’s clinical picture, has been studied for years. The Swan-Ganz catheter is an invasive hemodynamic monitoring measurement, indicated for clinical situations, such as acute heart failure (e.g. acute myocardial infarction, complicated by progressive hypotension or cardiogenic shock); mechanical complications of acute myocardial infarction; right ventricular infarction; refractory congestive heart failure; pulmonary hypertension. […]