Coronary Heart Disease

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impaired coronary blood flow may cause

  • Angina

  • Myocardial infarction or heart attack

  • Cardiac arrhythmias 

  • Conduction defects

  • Heart failure

  • Sudden death

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Basis for Diagnosis of Unstable Angina (Chest Pain)

  • Pain severity and presenting symptoms

  • Hemodynamic stability

  • ECG findings

  • Serum cardiac markers

    • D-dimer and troponin

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Why the troponin test to diagnose for angina?

If you damage the heart muscle, the cardiac cells rupture and release actin, myosin, troponin, and tropomyosin. Troponin is small and the easiest to test for

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