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Myocardial Infarction Diagnosis, Troponin Elevation and Angiographic Coronary Artery Disease

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The advancements in technology and diagnostic studies in cardiology have helped the clinician but also resulted in sometimes confusing clinical pictures when attempting to diagnosis an acute MI. This chapter will review the use of cardiac biomarkers in the setting of the current universal definition of acute MI, the pitfalls in interpreting the cause of troponin elevations, and discuss controversies regarding AMI presentations when angiography reveals ‘normal’ coronary arteries.

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  1. UCSF-Fresno Medical Education Program, Department of Cardiology, University of California, Fresno, CA, USA

    Arang Samim MD

  2. Chief of Cardiology, UCSF Fresno, Fresno, CA, USA

    John A. Ambrose MD

  3. Department of Medicine, UCSF Community Regional Medical Center, Fresno, CA, USA

    John A. Ambrose MD

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  2. Department of Interventional Cardiology, Otamendi Hospital, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Samim, A., Ambrose, J.A. (2015). Myocardial Infarction Diagnosis, Troponin Elevation and Angiographic Coronary Artery Disease. In: Ambrose, J., Rodríguez, A. (eds) Controversies in Cardiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20415-4_10

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