Outcomes in Patients Presenting with Symptoms Suggestive of Acute Coronary Syndrome with Elevated Cardiac Troponin but Non-obstructive Coronary Disease on Angiography

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Outcomes in Patients Presenting with Symptoms Suggestive of Acute Coronary Syndrome with Elevated Cardiac Troponin but Non-obstructive Coronary Disease on Angiography

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University of Otago

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Otago University Research Archive

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Many patients provisionally diagnosed with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) have angiographically unobstructed coronary arteries. Despite other potential causes, patients are often diagnosed as AMI with psychosocial implications and medication burden. The aim of this audit was to review such patients at our centre. All patients investigated for possible AMI with coronary angiography from 2007 until 2011 at Christchurch Hospital, New Zealand, in whom cardiac troponin was elevated (with no oth...

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Article

Date created

2015-09-01

Creator

Aldous, Sally / Elliott, John / McClean, Dougal / Puri, Aniket / Richards, A. Mark

URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10523/31246

Related subjects

Acute coronary syndrome / Coronary angiogram / Coronary stenosis / Myocardial infarction / Troponin

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