Acute Coronary Syndromes in Clinical Practice

• Main Authors: Bavry, Anthony A. (Author), Bhatt, Deepak L. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Family medicine.; Cardiology.; Heart > Surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; General Practice / Family Medicine.; Cardiac Surgery.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

Acute coronary syndromes (ACS) is an umbrella term used to describe a series of signs and symptoms indicative of myocardial ischemia, comprising unstable angina, non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction, and ST segment elevation myocardial infarction. Managing Acute Coronary Syndromes in Clini...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Preface
• 2 Epidemiology  US, European, and global perspectives; unstable angina, NSTEMI, STEMI
• 3 Diagnosis  symptoms, biomarkers, ECG
• 4 Risk stratification  TIMI risk score, GRACE risk score, CRUSADE/PURSUIT risk score
• 5 Medical therapy  antithrombotics, statins, etc
• 6 Percutaneous therapy  culprit vessel versus mulitvessel; BMS vs DES
• 7 Surgical therapy
• 8 Prognosis. - 9 Controversies  optimal antithrombotic strategy, fibrinolysis versus primary PCI for STEMI, preferred mode of revascularization (bare metal stents versus drug eluting stents versus CABG). - 10 Future approaches  CT angio and other evolving imaging modalities, biomarkers, proteomics, genomics, angiogenesis, myogenesis. Appendix A  Practice Guidelines  ACC/AHA and ESC
• Appendix B  Synopsis of Key Trials.