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European Heart Journal Advance Access published online on March 17, 2008
European Heart Journal, doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn131
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2008. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

The universal definition of myocardial infarction: some issues and concerns: reply

Kristian Thygesen

Department of Medicine and Cardiology
Aarhus University Hospital
Tage Hansens gade 2
DK-8000 Aarhus C
Denmark
Email: kristian.thygesen@as.aaa.dk

Joseph S. Alpert

University of Arizona College of Medicine
Tucson, AZ
USA

Allan S. Jaffe

Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN
USA

Harvey D. White On behalf of the Joint ESC/ACCF/AHA/WHF Task Force for the Redefinition of Myocardial Infarction

Auckland City Hospital
Auckland
New Zealand

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We are pleased to increase the educational impact of the new universal definition of myocardial infarction (MI)1–3 by responding to Lanza, who wonders why consistency was not the only criteria we used. The obvious response is that some important scientific information is unknown; there are data in some areas that suggest different approaches and strongly held convictions in others that needed to be balanced against . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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