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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care
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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care
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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care
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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care
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Clinical Briefs In Primary Care
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Clinical Briefs in Primary Care
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Clinical Briefs In Primary Care
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Diurnal Variation in Troponin T
The advent of highly sensitive troponin assays has shown detectable levels in apparently healthy subjects. Persistently elevated levels (> 99% percentile) can be observed in patients with a variety of chronic diseases, including coronary artery disease (CAD), making the accurate diagnosis of myocardial infarction (MI) challenging. -
Get Thee to the Pharmacy! Delays in Clopidogrel After Coronary Stenting Can be Deadly
During my final year of interventional cardiology training, a woman in her 60s was brought emergently to the cath lab in cardiogenic shock, with diffuse ST-segment elevations. She had undergone PCI of the LAD and RCA just over a week earlier at an outside hospital. -
Do Brief Episodes of Device-Detected Atrial Fibrillation Warrant Anticoagulation?
Asymptomatic episodes of atrial fibrillation (AF) are often detected when interrogating implanted pacemakers or defibrillators.