American College of Cardiology

BRAUNWALD ET AL., MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS WITH UNSTABLE ANGINA AND NON-ST-SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION UPDATE
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ACC/AHA 2002 Guideline Update for the Management of Patients With Unstable Angina and Non-ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction

A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Committee on the Management of Patients With Unstable Angina)

This is a Guideline Update of the 2000 Unstable Angina Guidelines. To highlight the changes, deleted text is indicated by strikeout, and revised text is presented in brown. A clean version of the document, with changes fully incorporated, is available for download and print.

Figure 16. ORs of selected characteristics, treatment, outcome, and discharge medications in elderly patients (aged more than 75 years) vs younger patients with unstable angina and non–ST-segment elevation MI in the TIMI III registry. Horizontal bars represent 95% confidence intervals. PA indicates PTCA; and ETT, exercise treadmill test. Reprinted with permission from Stone PH, Thompson B, Anderson HV, et al. Influence of race, sex, and age on management of unstable angina and non-Q-wave myocardial infarction: the TIMI III registry. JAMA 1996;275:1104–12. *PTCA is used to refer to studies in which this was the dominant form of PCI, before the widespread use of stenting.