Ischemic Heart Disease

Overview and Practice Guidelines:

• Myocardial Infarction Redefined—A Consensus Document of The Joint European Society of Cardiology/American College of Cardiology - http://www.acc.org/clinical/consensus/mi_redefined/redefined.pdf

• Ischemic Heart Disease: a comprehensive review - http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic1568.htm

• ACC/AHA 2002 Guideline Update for Management of Patients with Chronic Stable Angina - http://www.acc.org/clinical/guidelines/stable/stable_pocket.pdf

• ACC/AHA 2002 Guideline Update for Management of Patients with Unstable Angina and Non-ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: http://www.acc.org/clinical/guidelines/unstable/unstable_pkt.pdf

• ACC/AHA Guidelines for the Management of Patients With ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction - http://www.acc.org/clinical/guidelines/stemi/index_pkt.pdf

• ACC/AHA/SCAI 2005 Guideline Update for Percutaneous Coronary Intervention - http://www.acc.org/clinical/guidelines/percutaneous/update/index.pdf

• ACC/AHA Practice Guidelines for Management of Patients with Valvular Heart Disease - http://www.acc.org/clinical/guidelines/valvular/PValvulr.pdf

Cardiac Risk Assessment:

• ACCF/AHA Assessment of Cardiovascular Risk by Use of Multiple-Risk-Factor Assessment Equations - http://www.acc.org/clinical/consensus/risk/risk1999.pdf

• Coronary Heart Disease: Risk Identification and Management - http://www.prodigy.nhs.uk/ProdigyKnowledge/Guidance/WholeGuidanceView.aspx?GuidanceId=37306

• NIH Cardiac Risk Calculator - http://hp2010.nhlbihin.net/atpiii/calculator.asp?usertype=prof

• American Association of Clinical Chemistry: Cardiac Risk Assessment - http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/cardiac_risk/glance.html

• Harvard Centre for Cancer Prevention: Questionnaire for Cardiac Risk Assessment - http://www.yourdiseaserisk.harvard.edu/hccpquiz.pl?lang=english&func=start&quiz=heart

• American College of Cardiology: Key Data Elements and Definitions for measuring the Clinical Management and Outcomes of Patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes - http://www.acc.org/clinical/data_standards/ACS/pdf/ACS_clinicaldata.pdf

Statistics:

• UK National Statistics: Weekly incidence of heart attack - http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Expodata/Spreadsheets/D7430.xls

• US National Centre for Health Statistics: Fast Stats of Heart Disease - http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/heart.htm

Measures:

Cardiac Markers:

·        Use of Cardiac Markers in the Emergency Department - http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic932.htm

·        Acute Coronary Syndromes: NACB Laboratory Medicine Practice Guidelines - http://www.nacb.org/lmpg/biomark/card_biomarkers_chp1.doc

·        NACB: Recommendations for the use of Cardiac Biomarkers in Heart Failure - http://www.nacb.org/lmpg/biomark/card_biomarkers_chp2.doc

·        University of Alabama School of Medicine: Cardiac Biomarkers in Acute Coronary Syndrome - an update in 2002 -

http://www-cme.erep.uab.edu/onlineCourses/CardiacBiomarkers/ID0073.htm

·        American Association of Clinical Chemistry: Lipid Profile - http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/lipid/glance.html

·        American Association of Clinical Chemistry: Cardiac Biomarkers - http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/cardiac_biomarkers/glance.html

·        American Association of Clinical Chemistry: Creatine Kinase (CK) - http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/ck/glance.html

·        American Association of Clinical Chemistry: Creatine Kinase-MB (CK-MB) - http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/ckmb/glance.html

·        American Association of Clinical Chemistry: Myoglobin - http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/myoglobin/glance.html

·        American Association of Clinical Chemistry: Cardiac-specific Troponin I and T (TnI, TnT) - http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/troponin/glance.html

·        American Association of Clinical Chemistry: Ischemia-Modified Albumin (IMA) - http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/ima/glance.html

 Related Laboratory Tests:

• American Association of Clinical Chemistry: BNP (Brain natriuretic peptide) and NT-proBNP (N-terminal prohormone brain natriuretic peptide) - http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/bnp/glance.html

• American Association of Clinical Chemistry: Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) - http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/ast/glance.html

• American Association of Clinical Chemistry: Lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) - http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/ldh/glance.html

• American Association of Clinical Chemistry: Electrolyte Panel - http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/electrolytes/glance.html

• American Association of Clinical Chemistry: Complete Blood Count (CBC) - http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/cbc/glance.html

• American Association of Clinical Chemistry: Arterial Blood Gases (ABGs) - http://www.labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/blood_gases/glance.html

ECG:

• Holter monitor (24h) / Ambulatory Electrocardiography - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003877.htm

• ACC Position Statement: Recommended Guidelines for In-Hospital Cardiac Monitoring of Adults for Detection of Arrhythmia - http://www.acc.org/clinical/position/72535.pdf

• ACC Expert Consensus Document: Signal-Averaged Electrocardiography - http://www.acc.org/clinical/consensus/signal.pdf

• Electrocardiogram: a brief overview - http://www.emedicinehealth.com/Articles/10973-1.asp

• ACC/AHA 2002 Guideline Update for Exercise Testing - http://www.acc.org/clinical/guidelines/exercise/exercise_clean.pdf

• American Academy of Family Physicians: Ordering and Understanding the Exercise Stress Test - http://www.aafp.org/afp/990115ap/401.html

Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring:

• American College of Cardiology: Position Statement: Ambulatory Blood Pressure Monitoring - http://www.acc.org/clinical/position/72530.pdf

Echocardiography:

• ACC/AHA/ASE 2003 Guideline Update for the Clinical Application of Echocardiography - http://www.acc.org/clinical/guidelines/echo/index_clean.pdf

• Echocardiogram: a brief overview - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/003869.htm

• Stress Echocardiography Overview - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/007150.htm

Cardiac Imaging with Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance:

• ACCF/AHA Clinical Competence Statement on Cardiac Imaging with Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance - http://www.acc.org/clinical/competence/imaging/index.pdf

Electron-Beam Computed Tomography:

• ACC/AHA Expert Consensus Document on Electron-Beam Computed Tomography for the Diagnosis and Prognosis of Coronary Artery Disease - http://www.acc.org/clinical/consensus/electron/ja070000326p.pdf

Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography Myocardial Perfusion Imaging (SPECT MPI):

• ACCF/ASNC Appropriateness Criteria for Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography Myocardial Perfusion Imaging (SPECT MPI) - http://www.acc.org/clinical/pdfs/SPECTMPIACPubFile.pdf

• ACCF/AHA/HRS/SCAI Clinical Competence Statement on Physician Knowledge to Optimize Patient Safety and Image Quality in Fluoroscopically Guided Invasive Cardiovascular Procedures - http://www.acc.org/clinical/competence/fluoro/index.pdf

Radionuclide Scintirenography:

• ACC: Position Statement on Radionuclide Scintirenography in the Evaluation of Patients With Hypertension - http://www.acc.org/clinical/position/72554.htm

Radiation Safety:

• ACC: Radiation Safety in the Practice of Cardiology: Expert Consensus Document - http://www.acc.org/clinical/consensus/radiation/5526.pdf

Intravascular Ultrasound Studies (IVUS):

• ACC Clinical Expert Consensus Document on Standards for Acquisition, Measurement and Reporting of Intravascular Ultrasound Studies (IVUS) - http://www.acc.org/clinical/consensus/standards/standard.pdf

Cardiac Pacemakers:

• ACC/AHA/NASPE 2002 Guideline Update for Implantation of Cardiac Pacemakers and Antiarrhythmia Devices: http://www.acc.org/clinical/guidelines/pacemaker/Pcmkr_pkt.pdf

Prevention of Acute Coronary Syndrome:

• WHO: Avoiding Heart Attacks and Strokes - http://www.who.int/cardiovascular_diseases/resources/avoid_heart_attack_part1.pdf

• WHO CVD-Risk Management Package for low- and medium-resource - http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2002/9241545852.pdf

• Evidence-Based Guidelines for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in Women - http://www.acc.org/clinical/consensus/CVD_women/women.pdf

• AHA/ACC Guidelines for Preventing Heart Attack and Death in Patients With Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease: 2001 Update - http://www.acc.org/clinical/guidelines/atherosclerosis/atherosclerosis_pdf.pdf

• ACC Position Statement on Preventive Cardiology and Atherosclerotic Disease - http://www.acc.org/clinical/position/72553.pdf

Document Provenance and History

Document Author: Dr. Fazal Danish

Document Created: 22nd March 2006

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