ESC/ACCF/AHA/WHF Expert Consensus Document
Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction

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The recommendations set forth in this report are those of the Task Force Members and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the American College of Cardiology.

The content of this European Society of Cardiology (ESC) document has been published for personal and educational use only. No commercial use is authorized. No part of the document may be translatedorreproducedinany form without written permission from the ESC. Permission can be obtained upon submission of a written request to Oxford University Press, the publisher of the European Heart Journal and the party authorized to handle such permissions on behalf of the ESC.

Disclaimer: The document represents the views of the ESC, which were arrived at after careful consideration of the available evidence at the time they were written. Health professionals are encouraged totake them fully into account when exercising their clinical judgement. The document does not, however, override the individual responsibility of health professionals to make appropriate decisions in the circumstances of the individual patients, in consultation with that patient, and where appropriate and necessary the patient’s guardian or carer. It is also the health professional’s responsibility to verify the rules and regulations applicable to drugs and devices at the time of prescription.

This article has been copublished in the October II (Vol. 28 no. 20), 2007, issue of the European Heart Journal(also available on the Web site of the European Society of Cardiology at www.escardio.org) and the November 27, 2007, issue of Circulation(also available on the Web site of the American Heart Association at my.americanheart.org).

This document was approved by the European Society of Cardiology in April 2007, the World Heart Federation in April 2007, and by the American Heart Association Science Advisory and Coordinating Committee on May 9, 2007. The European Society of Cardiology, the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, and the World Heart Federation request that this document be cited as follows: Thygesen K, Alpert JS, White HD; Joint ESC/ACCF/AHA/WHF Task Force for the Redefinition of Myocardial Infarction. Universal definition of myocardial infarction. J Am Coll Cardiol 2007;50:2173–95.

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