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2015 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes in patients presenting without persistent ST-segment elevation

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Roffi, Marco, Patrono, Carlo, Collet, Jean-Philippe, Mueller, Christian, Valgimigli, Marco, Andreotti, Felicita, Bax, Jeroen J., Borger, Michael A. +110 more·2016·European Heart Journal
DOI 10.1093/eurheartj/ehv320
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This section summarises the diagnostic and therapeutic steps discussed in the previous sections. The goal is to outline the most important steps in the management of patients with NSTE-ACS. In each individual patient, decision making should take into account the patient's history (e.g. age, comorbidities), clinical presentation (e.g. ongoing myocardial ischaemia, haemodynamic or electrical instability), findings obtained during the initial assessment (i.e. ECG, cardiac troponin), timing and expected risk-benefit ratio of available therapies (i.e. pharmacological, invasive assessment, revascularization).

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Roffi, M., Patrono, C., Collet, J.-P., Mueller, C., Valgimigli, M., Andreotti, F., Bax, J. J., Borger, M. A., Brotons, C., Chew, D. P., Gencer, B., Hasenfuss, G., Kjeldsen, K., Lancellotti, P., Landmesser, U., Mehilli, J., Mukherjee, D., Storey, R. F., Windecker, S., ESC Scientific Document Group, Baumgartner, H., Gaemperli, O., Achenbach, S., Agewall, S., Badimon, L., Baigent, C., Bueno, H., Bugiardini, R., Carerj, S., Casselman, F., Cuisset, T., Erol, Ç., Fitzsimons, D., Halle, M., Hamm, C., Hildick-Smith, D., Huber, K., Iliodromitis, E., James, S., Lewis, B. S., Lip, G. Y. H., Piepoli, M. F., Richter, D., Rosemann, T., Sechtem, U., Steg, P. G., Vrints, C., Luis Zamorano, J., Zamorano, J. L., Aboyans, V., Achenbach, S., Agewall, S., Badimon, L., Barón-Esquivias, G., Baumgartner, H., Bax, J. J., Bueno, H., Carerj, S., Dean, V., Erol, Ç., Fitzsimons, D., Gaemperli, O., Kirchhof, P., Kolh, P., Lancellotti, P., Lip, G. Y., Nihoyannopoulos, P., Piepoli, M. F., Ponikowski, P., Roffi, M., Torbicki, A., Carneiro, A. V., Windecker, S., Chilingaryan, A., Weidinger, F., Najafov, R., Sinnaeve, P. R., Terzic, I., Postadzhiyan, A., Milicic, D., Eftychiou, C., Widimsky, P., Bang, L., El Etriby, A., Marandi, T., Pietilä, M., Kedev, S., Koning, R., Aladashvili, A., Neumann, F.-J., Tsioufis, K., Becker, D., Guðnason, T., Matetzky, S., Bolognese, L., Mussagaliyeva, A., Beishenkulov, M., Latkovskis, G., Serpytis, P., Pereira, B., Magri, C. J., Grosu, A., Abir-Khalil, S., Larsen, A. I., Budaj, A., Mimoso, J. M. V., Ginghina, C., Averkov, O., Nedeljkovic, M. A., Studencan, M., Barrabés, J. A., Held, C., Rickli, H., Peters, R. J., Mourali, M. S., Atalar, E., Swanson, N., & Parkhomenko, A.
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  • Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (IT)
  • Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie (FR)
  • University Hospital of Basel (CH)
  • Erasmus MC (NL)
  • University Hospital of Geneva (CH)
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European Heart Journal
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
2016-01-14
Volume
37
Issue
3
Pages
267-315
ISSN
  • 0195-668X (ISSN-L)
  • 1522-9645
DOI
10.1093/eurheartj/ehv320
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Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Acute Myocardial Infarction Research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging › Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Surgery › Coronary Interventions and Diagnostics
Keywords
acute coronary syndrome, non-ST-segment elevation, ST-elevation myocardial infarction, clinical management, risk stratification, reperfusion therapy, secondary prevention
MeSH terms
Age Factors, Anticoagulants, Humans, Myocardial Revascularization, Platelet Aggregation Inhibitors, Prognosis, Risk Factors, Sex Factors, Time Factors, Risk Assessment, Acute Coronary Syndrome

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