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An athletic 30-something woman with acute substernal chest pressure

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Troponin elevation is dependent on presence or absence of occlusion (remember many OMI receive a diagnosis of NSTEMI), duration of occlusion (which is dependent on rapidity of therapy or the luck of spontaneous reperfusion), area of myocardium at risk, collateral circulation, and more. What is Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD)?

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