Acute Coronary Syndrome—How Diagnostic Procedures Should Inform Therapeutic Decision-Making

A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2016)

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Acute coronary syndrome is one of the most frequent indications for urgent hospital admissions. It requires fast and precise therapeutic management, as time lost to delays may worsen myocardial injury and thus outcome.

While electrocardiograms and seromarkers have been efficient in ruling in or ruling out the diagnosis, challenges remain and, frequently, decisions for invasive studies are taken without true benefit for patients.

Non-invasive diagnostic techniques, such as echocardiography, cardiac MR (CMR) or cardiac CT (CCT), may be helpful to identify patients who would benefit from rapid revascularization. Yet, so far their role is reduced to establishing the diagnosis of coronary artery disease, without necessarily assessing the acuity of myocardial injury.

This Special Issue of the Journal of Clinical Medicine will cover the impact of various diagnostic approaches for clinical decision-making, especially:

  • The role of high-sensitive seromarkers with respect to coronary revascularization in patients presenting late after onset of symptoms;
  • The role of CCT for identifying unstable coronary lesions;
  • The role of CMR with respect to coronary revascularization in patients presenting late after onset of symptoms;
  • The impact of perfusion imaging in patients with multi-vessel coronary artery disease and incomplete revascularization;
  • The potential of novel CMR markers in patients with recent acute coronary syndrome;
  • Strategies to implement time-efficient imaging in the clinical setting of acute coronary syndrome

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Keywords

  • acute coronary syndrome
  • coronary revascularization
  • myocardial edema
  • myocardial oxygenation
  • myocardial perfusion

Published Papers

There is no accepted submissions to this special issue at this moment.
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