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Regional and temporal variations of spontaneous coronary artery dissection care according to consensus recommendations: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Open Heart

Aim The first expert consensus documents on management of patients with spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) were published in 2018. Studies were selected if they included patients with SCAD and reported at least one of the consensus document recommendations. 53 studies, n=8456 patients (mean 50.1 female) were included.

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Abstract 4134796: Safety of over 1000 consecutive, selected low risk patients with accelerated discharge from a chest pain unit with early generation cardiac troponin use, no cardiac functional or anatomic testing and no clinical risk scores

Circulation

Mean patient age was 55 yrs, 56% (n=575) were women, and comorbid conditions were frequent: hypertension (64.1%), dyslipidemia (46.1%), diabetes (25.7%), documented coronary artery disease (19.3%), previous revascularization (20.6%), previous myocardial infarction (10.1%). Length of stay (LOS) in the CPU to discharge was 10.4