Research Article
Can We Exclude the Diagnosis of Non-ST Segment Myocardial Infarction on the Basis of a Single Troponin I and a Symptom Duration ≥8 Hours?
Table 3
Outcomes of the study population.
| | Workup/treatment (%) | |
| | Cardiac Catheterization | 21 (18.3) | | Stress test | 17 (14.8) | | Thrombolysis | 12 (10.4) |
| | Primary diagnosis (%) | | | NSTEMI | 39 (33.9) | | STEMI | 16 (13.9) | | CHF exacerbation | 9 (7.8) | | Arrest | 8 (7.0) | | Tachydysrhythmia | 5 (4.3) | | Pulmonary embolism | 5 (4.3) | | Pneumonia | 3 (2.6) | | Pulmonary edema | 3 (2.6) | | Intracranial hemorrhage | 3 (2.6) | | Sepsis | 3 (2.6) | | Gastrointestinal bleed | 3 (2.6) | | Syncope | 3 (2.6) | | Hypertensive emergency | 2 (1.7) | | Stroke | 2 (1.7) | | Other | 9 (7.8) |
| | Death (%) | | | Yes | 14 (12.2) |
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STEMI: ST segment elevation myocardial infarction, NSTEMI: non-ST segment elevation myocardial infarction, CHF: congestive heart failure.
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