Defining myocardial infarction: "Will the real myocardial infarction please stand up?"

American Heart Journal

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 377-379

  Alpert, Joseph S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE MB; MYOGLOBIN; TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T;

DISEASE MARKER; EDITORIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART INFARCTION; HEART INFARCTION SIZE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE NECROSIS; HEART MUSCLE OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; HUMAN; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL ASPECT;

EID: 0041330663     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-8703(03)00246-1     Document Type: Editorial

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