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Groundwork Laid for Assays That Point to MI Within Minutes of Infarct Onset
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Title Groundwork Laid for Assays That Point to MI Within Minutes of Infarct Onset
Url http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/580845?src=rss
Description Serial blood samples in patients with deliberately induced MIs (actually, they were the normal result of alcohol septal ablation therapy for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy) showed elevations in several molecules that could, in theory, help identify ongoing infarction as soon as 10 minutes after onset. Heartwire
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Date Sep 20, 2008
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