Third universal definition of myocardial infarction

Nature Reviews Cardiology

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 620-633

  Thygesen, Kristian ^a   Alpert, Joseph S ^b   Jaffe, Allan S ^d   Simoons, Maarten L ^d   Chaitman, Bernard R ^d   White, Harvey D ^c  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c AUCKLAND CITY HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

(3 IODOBENZYL)GUANIDINE I 123; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; CREATINE KINASE MB; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; METHOXY ISOBUTYL ISONITRILE TECHNETIUM TC 99M; TETROFOSMIN TC 99M; TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T;

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; APOPTOSIS; CIRCULATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COR PULMONALE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CREATINE KINASE BLOOD LEVEL; DIAPHORESIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FAINTNESS; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FATIGUE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEART AMYLOIDOSIS; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART DEATH; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART MUSCLE NECROSIS; HEART MUSCLE OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; HEART PALPITATION; HEART REINFARCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MYOCARDITIS; NAUSEA; NON ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; Q WAVE; QRS COMPLEX; R WAVE; REFERENCE VALUE; REVASCULARIZATION; REVIEW; SCINTISCANNING; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; ST SEGMENT; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; STENT THROMBOSIS; T WAVE; TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY; TRANSCATHETER AORTIC VALVE IMPLANTATION;

EID: 84867897898     PISSN: 17595002     EISSN: 17595010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrcardio.2012.122     Document Type: Review

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