Treat the patient, not the machine...always true? A case report of silent myocardial infarction.

Damien Gaumont

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.32378/ijp.v2i2.63

Abstract

After an unusual prehospital ST-segment elevated myocardial infarction (STEMI)  presentation, with a completely asymptomatic patient, a literature review was performed investigating the incidence and pathophysiology of true asymptomatic myocardial infarction.


Keywords

Prehospital; STEMI; ACS; silent MI

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.32378/ijp.v2i2.63

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