Type 2 myocardial infarction: a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge in contemporary cardiology.

ABSTRACT: In the expanding world of cardiovascular diseases, rapidly reaching pandemic proportions, the main focus is still on coronary atherosclerosis and its clinical consequences. However, at least in the Western world, middle-aged male patients with acute myocardial infarction are no more the rule. Due to a higher life expectancy and major medical advances, physicians are to treat older and frailer individuals, usually with multiple comorbidities. In this context, myocardial ischaemia and infarction frequently result from an imbalance between myocardial oxygen supply and demand-i.e., type 2 myocardial infarction (T2MI), according to the current universal definition-rather than coronary atherothrombosis. Moreover, the increasing use of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin assays has led to a heighte

SUBMITTER: Merlo AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8853072 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature