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Management and outcomes of spontaneous coronary artery dissection: a systematic review of the literature

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Methods The PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) guidelines were followed when we extensively searched three electronic databases: PubMed, ScienceDirect, and Web of Science, for studies that compared conservative vs. invasive revascularization treatment outcomes for patients with SCAD from 2003 to 2023.

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Three normal high sensitivity troponins over 4 hours with a "normal ECG"

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Thus, the patient does not (yet) get a formal diagnosis of MI and must be called unstable angina unless further troponins return above the 99th percentile. On the basis of unresolved angina, cardiology decided to perform rescue PCI. Medically refractory angina should have immediate angiography, but this only happens 6.4%

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ECG Blog #386 — OMI or Something Else?

Ken Grauer, MD

The finding of all negative QRS complexes in leads V3-thru- V6 therefore strongly suggests that the arrhythmia-associated impulse is not traveling over an AP ( Steurer et al — Clin. This should result in at least some positivity of QRS complexes as one moves toward the lateral chest leads. Cardiol 17:306-308, 1994 ).

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