The American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Heart Association (AHA) guidelines
for the management of unstable angina and non–ST-segment elevation myocardial …

Conclusions...... 1025 V. Hospital Discharge and Post–Hospital Discharge Care...... 1025 A.
Medical Regimen...... 1026 1. Long-Term Medical Therapy...... 1026 B. Postdischarge Follow …

The ACC/AHA Task Force on Practice Guidelines herein revises and updates the original
“Guidelines for Coronary Angiography,” published in 1987 (1). The frequent and still …

Background Evaluation of patients with acute chest pain in emergency rooms is time-
consuming and expensive, and it often results in uncertain diagnoses. We prospectively …

Background The prognosis of patients hospitalized with acute myocardial ischemia is quite
variable. We examined the value of serum levels of cardiac troponin T, serum creatine …

Background—Cardiac troponin T (cTnT) is a sensitive and specific marker, allowing the
detection of even minor myocardial cell injury. In patients with severe pulmonary embolism …

The ACC/AHA statement" Guidelines for the Early Management of Patients with Acute
Myocardial Infarction" was introduced in 1990, 1 following a time during which advances in …

Unstable angina is a critical phase of coronary heart disease with widely variable symptoms
and prognosis. A decade ago, a classification of unstable angina based on clinical …

OBJECTIVES We evaluated C-reactive protein (CRP) and troponin T (TnT) for predicting six-
month cardiac risk in patients with unstable angina. BACKGROUND Troponin T is predictive …

OBJECTIVES This study was designed to compare the prognostic value of an abnormal
troponin level derived from studies of patients with non-ST elevation acute coronary …