Acute subclavian artery thrombosis causing ACS

2016-10-13T18:16:29-05:00December 7th, 2013|ECG|

79-year-old women has severe aortic stenosis and 2-vessel coronary artery disease s/p coronary artery bypass graft who developed acute dyspnea. She was found to have chronic occlusion of her vein graft and acute thrombosis of her subclavian artery, causing diffuse cardiac ischemia and myonecrosis.

Limit troponins to evaluation of cardiac ischemia and ACS

2014-10-16T18:20:46-05:00August 11th, 2013|Cardiology|

Its important to understand that in the US the FDA has not yet approved the high-sensitivity (hs) troponin assays. Therefore we are still talking about the so-called contemporary troponin assays. The current assay is a good test, and the high-sensitivity troponin will have even better