The Search for a Biomarker of Cardiac Ischemia

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With ∼8 million patients arriving with nontraumatic chest pain to emergency departments in the US each year, the clinical evaluation, triage, and management of patients with possible acute coronary syndromes (ACS) presents a substantial medical and fiscal challenge (1). Although 2–5% of patients with myocardial infarction (MI) are inadvertently discharged from the emergency department and are a leading reason for...

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