New guidelines released for unstable angina

Pharmaceutical Representative,  June, 2002  by Anonymous

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An update to practice guidelines on the management of unstable angina and a related form of heart attack known as non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction has been released by the Bethesda, MD-based American College of Cardiology and the Dallas-based American Heart Association. The new guidelines update a previous version released a little over a year ago.

"We've learned more in a year about unstable angina and NSTEMI than we did in the preceding 20 years," said Eugene Braunwald, faculty dean for academic programs at Harvard Medical School. "The clinical landscape has ...

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